paul.guest
8th February 2005 02:27 UTC

RMDir has no effect
Hi. My installer must create a shortcut to a file that does not yet exist. further more, the directory which eventually contains the file CANNOT exist after the installation. currently i am attempting to achieve this behaviour with the following script:

SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\webapps\xxx\WEB-INF"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\XXX Documents\Export or Import Database.lnk" \
  "$INSTDIR\webapps\xxx\WEB-INF\guiexportimport.bat" \ 
  "" \
  "$INSTDIR\xxx.ico" 0 SW_SHOWNORMAL
; Remove directory created by SetOutPath
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\webapps\xxx"

problem is the RMDir has no effect and the xxx directory still exists after the installation has completed. (the WEB-INF dir under xxx also exists). does anyone know what i am doing wrong?

Comperio
8th February 2005 03:39 UTC

Are you saying the shortcut is actually being created? (that would really surprise me, especially when you say that you must create a shortcut to file that does not exist.)

Assuming that the target really does exist (and that you have sufficiet rights to the shortcut directory), then as a test, I'd try to insert some "IfErrors" commands after the CreateShortcut and RMDir commands to see if either is returning an error.

paul.guest
8th February 2005 04:02 UTC

yes, the shortcut was being created, even though the file did not exist (i agree the documentation says it shouldn't have been created).

i was originally using 2.04 and i have just tested the script (unchanged) with 2.05 and 2.0
2.04 > problem
2.05 > problem
2.0 > no problem

so the bug was arose due to upgrade from 2.0 to 2.04. is this a regression?

today was the first time i ran the script but the guy who wrote it was using 2.0 so that explains why it only just appeared.

paul.guest
8th February 2005 04:11 UTC

bug logged (1118369)

Takhir
8th February 2005 19:03 UTC

This is not a bug. Windows not allows to delete current folder of applications. Following works on my comp

SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\webapps\xxx\WEB-INF"
; ...
SetOutPath $INSTDIR
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\webapps\xxx"

NSIS approach to "outpath" might be changed in later versions.