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Qt/Win Creating app shortcuts

In Qt I know you can create a shortcut (lnk) using the following method

QFile::link("myapp.exe", "myapp.exe.lnk");

This works fine but I want to create an lnk that also has some arguments in the target path. Anyway to do this in Qt?

Solution

  • I found the following answer from Constantin Makshin in the Qt-interest mailing list:

    QFile::link() function creates symbolic links (speaking in terms of
    Unix-like systems) and Windows shortcuts is only a more or less equal
    solution. And since symbolic links don't support command line arguments
    (they are simply "the same file with different name"), QFile::link()
    doesn't support them either.

    So you'll have to rely on native API to create such shortcuts/links.

    Apart from using the native API, you could also create a .bat file and store the command line call in there.