On 2019-09-11, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to switch from using Inno Setup to build an installer and
> instead have cx_freeze create an MSI.
I'm still stumped trying to create a shortcut in a subfolder of the
start menu. That's now the only thing that still forces me to use
Inno Setup to create in instaler for tree created by cx_freeze rather
than just having cx_freeze generate an .msi.
Does anybody have any ideas?
> 1. How do you create a shortcut in a folder under the start menu?
>
> I can create a top-level start menu shortcut, but I can't figure
> out how to put the shorcut in a folder. I've tried all sorts of
> different things for shortcutName and shortcutDir, but most of them
> either produce an installer error or cause the installer to hang.
>
> The initial_target_dir setting seems to allow folder names like this:
>
> "initial_target_dir": r"[ProgramFilesFolder]\My-Company\My-Program",
>
> But I can't get anything like that to work for the shortcut directory.
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