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
