If you check out the source of MSI::Installer.pm's SetShortcut() method and you will see: 

    
$self->{msi_db}->AddData(Shortcut => [ 
                                 {'Shortcut' => StrToUKey($target_file
+), 
                                  'Directory_' => $dir_key, 
                                  'Name' => $shortcut_name, 
                                  'Component_' => $component, 
                                  'Target' => $Feature, 
                                  'Arguments' => $argument_str, 
                                  'Description' => 'Description', 
                                  'Hotkey' => undef, 
                                  'Icon_' => undef, 
                                  'IconIndex' => undef, 
                                  'ShowCmd' => undef, 
                                  'WkDir' => undef, 
                                 }],

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If you have a look here you will see the property names associated with shortcuts objects in VBS. You can see the WorkingDirectory property. I strongly suspect that 'WkDir' in the above code corresponds to this. So just hack the Installer.pm source to take a 4th arg and use it to set 'WkDir'. With a bit of luck it should work. For reference here is a VBS example of creating shortcuts which shows you the object property names. In a worst case you could always run something like this to generate the required shortcut. 

' Get a Shell object
Dim WSHShell
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

' Create a shortcut object 
Dim MyShortcut
Set MyShortcut = WSHShell.CreateShortcut("C:\Temp\Shortcut.lnk")

' Set shortcut object properties and save it
MyShortcut.TargetPath = "\\server\xyz\foo.exe"
MyShortcut.WorkingDirectory = "\\server\xyz"
MyShortcut.WindowStyle = 4
MyShortcut.Save

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cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Active Perl Dev Kit by tachyon
in thread Active Perl Dev Kit by Anonymous Monk

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