> This package contains nothing but a default application compatibility > manifest, which gets linked in by GCC by default, and which is supposed > to claim compatibility with the latest Windows versions available at the > time. > > Adding such a manifest got necessary due to a change in Windows 8.1. On > earlier OS versions, applications without manifest were treated as > compatible with the current OS. Starting with Windows 8.1, an > executable without manifest is treated as being compatible only with the > oldest supported OS version of the OS compatibility layer. > > That means, all applications without manifest are running in a Window > Vista compatibility layer on Windows 8.1. This affects all Cygwin > executables to date. By adding the default manifest to newly built > packages, we're slowly getting to run our executables with full OS > compatibility.
I'm sorry, can you please remind me: Is there anything I have to do to include the new manifest? Or is it enough just to rebuild the executable once this package is installed? Thanks, Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
