--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/netinstall/mklink2.c	Mon Aug 13 11:38:25 2007 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#include "win32.h"
+#include "shlobj.h"
+
+/* This part of the code must be in C because the C++ interface to COM
+doesn't work. */
+
+void
+make_link_2 (char *exepath, char *args, char *icon, char *lname)
+{
+  IShellLink *sl;
+  IPersistFile *pf;
+  WCHAR widepath [_MAX_PATH];
+
+  CoCreateInstance (&CLSID_ShellLink, NULL,
+		    CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, &IID_IShellLink, (LPVOID *) & sl);
+  sl->lpVtbl->QueryInterface (sl, &IID_IPersistFile, (void **) &pf);
+
+  sl->lpVtbl->SetPath (sl, exepath);
+  sl->lpVtbl->SetArguments (sl, args);
+  sl->lpVtbl->SetIconLocation (sl, icon, 0);
+
+  MultiByteToWideChar (CP_ACP, 0, lname, -1, widepath, _MAX_PATH);
+  pf->lpVtbl->Save (pf, widepath, TRUE);
+
+  pf->lpVtbl->Release (pf);
+  sl->lpVtbl->Release (sl);
+}