Creating shortcuts in XP

[evilpenguin]

I'm working on a studio project and I need to create a windows shortcut to a file using only CLI commands. Does anyone know if there is a simple way to do this?

[GKusnick]

By CLI you mean a Windows batch file? I don't know of a way to do it directly using batch commands, but it's easily done in VBScript or JScript using WshShell.CreateShortcut:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/d91b9d23-a7e5-4ec2-8b55-ef6ffe9c777d.asp

You can then invoke the script file from a command prompt or batch file using wscript.exe or cscript.exe.

[evilpenguin]

Thanks, that looks like it will do the trick!