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Subject: cygwin_create_path
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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I'm having a spot of trouble changing mkshortcut to use the
wchar_t-enabled cygwin_create_path instead of the deprecated
cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path & co. When converting to a Windows path
using CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W, the result is a path starting with "\\?\",
e.g. "\\?\C:\cygwin\bash.exe".

Yet unfortunately the IShellLink::SetPath method does not appear to
accept such paths, instead returning failure and leaving the link
target unset. Therefore, is there a simple way to get from the full
path to a "normal" path such as "C:\cygwin\bash.exe"? Simply dropping
the "\\?\" wouldn't work for network paths. I haven't managed to find
a solution on MSDN.

Andy

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