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

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:05:53AM CEST:
> >On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:23 +0200, "Ralf Wildenhues" wrote:
> >>Why does gcc but not msvc need them?

> 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.

Have you guys considered adding manifest file functionality to GCC?

Thanks,
Ralf