<p>I don't know much about NSIS, but I think <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/geany.nsi.in#L172">this</a> is where the shortcut is created, and according to <a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Reference/CreateShortCut">the docs</a> it seems to be set automatically to $OUTDIR, if I understand correctly. Maybe it's possible to use <a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Reference/SetOutPath">SetOutPath</a> with an empty argument to clear $OUTDIR, then use CreateShortCut to create the shortcut, then set $OUTDIR back to $INSTDIR afterwards? I really have no clue.</p>

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