[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Feature Requests-3440395 ] manifest tool needed for windows vista/7/8 compatibility

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Feature Requests item #3440395, was opened at 2011-11-19 22:35
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Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jim Michaels (jmichae3)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: manifest tool needed for windows vista/7/8 compatibility

Initial Comment:
he microsoft visual c++ compiler has a manifest tool mt.exe for modifying executables and adding in manifest xml resources, which makes executables vista, 7, and 8 compatible (in other words, they won't get shoved into the virtual store when stored in the newly protected directory c:\program files\ - or is it executed?).

see http://JesusnJim.com/code/copmpilers/mingw.html
for documentation on the microsoft XML manifest format and how it should be added as a windows resource.

a specially done manifest can be made to be compatible with xp and windows 9x/me, but if you get it incorrectly formatted, the program will not execute on vista/7/8, and especially not on 9x/me.


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