How to create shortcut Junction links at runtime
Target Platform: Win/32 [XP SP2 (and above)]
Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to get my NSIS setup script to create a directory which will be a junction point to another folder/directory
I have my application which I am building an installer for which already contains junction-points in its file-system, I am now trying to package up into my NSIS installer by creating each directory and file as represented in my application folder (junctions included).
I would like to find out if there is a proper way to achieve this purely from within NSIS setup script itself and without having to call a separate batch script on exec().
For simplicity sake here is a brief example of what I wish to achieve:
...
section
CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\App\Logs" # <-- This is the actual dir.
CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\Logs" # <-- This should be junction of ..\App\Logs
sectionend
...I'm an NSIS installer newbie and as yet have not fully understand what NSIS is fully capable of achieving with regards to file/folder manipulation.
NSIS does look to be very flexible and powerful enough for my needs thus far.
-- I would just like to see the basic principle on how to create a Junction-Link from within NSIS. Any old example will do I should be able to figure it out from there ;)
Anders kindly pointed out in another one of my posts: junction and a symlink is not the same thing! Junctions are Win2000+ and symlinks are Vista+
Thanks