Re: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Create UAC manifest files.

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2009-07-01 00:11 skrev address@hidden:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:23 +0200, "Ralf Wildenhues" wrote:
> > Why does gcc but not msvc need them?
>
> It does. cl.exe has a flag that causes it to automatically invoke the
> MSVC manifest tool (mt? I forget), AND link the resulting object into
> the target.  Peter's libtool patches exploit this functionality, which
> is why he *doesn't* want libtool to create external xml manifests for
> that toolchain.

cl.exe will generate the manifest file all by itself, regardless of
executable name. My gripe was that any file created by libtool will
overwrite the file generated by cl.exe and I think cl.exe will do
a better job of creating the manifest. My msvc patches then has code
to embed the manifest into the executable using mt (manifest tool),
but that is immaterial to this discussion.

Cheers,
Peter