Mam problem z automatycznym dołączeniem manifestu do zasobów pliku wykonywalnego tworzonego przy pomocy build.exe w WDK.
W Visual Studio tradycyjnie robi się to poprzez proste ustawienie nazwy pliku z manifestem w Properties / Manifest Tool / Input and Output. Tyle wystarczy i manifest jest poprawnie dołączany do zasobów.
W bin\makefile.new w liniach 1893-1948 należącego do WDK w wersji 7.1.0 czytamy, że:
# SideBySide (SXS) Build
#
# Step by Step instructions
#
# For building a monolithic application, foo.ext (where .ext is usually .exe but for example .scr).
# For building an application that hosts arbitrary (3rd party) code.
# For building a single file component like comctl32.dll.
# For building a multiple file component.
#
# Reference
#
# An assembly contains a manifest and one or more files, usually .dlls.
# The manifest can be in a resource in one of the files, or it can be in a seperate
# .manifest file. For purposes of fitting on an 8.3 CD, .man is allowed.
# Build.exe is generally limited to building one .dll per directory, so
# you can be building files for an assembly without building a manifest.
#
# To build/binplace a manifest:
#
# SXS_MANIFEST required
# This is the source file that contains your manifest.
# It must end in .manifest.
# It is always preprocessed. Available macros include:
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_NAME
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_VERSION
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE
# SXS_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
#
# SXS_MANIFEST_IN_RESOURCES optional
# This is defined or not, so you just say
# SXS_MANIFEST_IN_RESOURCES=
# or don't say anything.
#
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_NAME and/or SXS_SHORT_ASSEMBLY_NAME required
# One can be generated from the other.
# SXS_SHORT_ASSEMBLY_NAME is used where 8.3 limits apply, like on the product CD.
# Both of these macros can be hierarchical, using dot, dash, or underscore to seperate
# elements. SXS_SHORT_ASSEMBLY_NAME should actually only contain 8 character elements.
#
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_VERSION optional, defaults to 5.1.
#
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE or SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE_INDEPENDENT required
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE_INDEPENDENT is defined or not.
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE is four digits like
# 0409 for English US
# 0009 for English
# 0000 for language independent
# We should make this easier as is done for resources (LANGUAGE => RCCODEPAGE), but for now we don't.
#
# To build/binplace a file into an assembly, a subset of the information
# needed for manifests is needed:
#
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_NAME and/or SXS_SHORT_ASSEMBLY_NAME
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_VERSION
# SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE or SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE_INDEPENDENT
Także w pliku sources umieszczam:
SXS_MANIFEST=myapp.manifest
SXS_ASSEMBLY_NAME=Program
SXS_ASSEMBLY_VERSION=1.0
SXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE=0000
Uruchamiam build, kompilacja przebiega pomyślnie. Część logów dotyczących manifestu:
1>Generating Code...
1> del c:\users\rev\documents\visual~1\projects\program\objfre_wxp_x86\i386\myapp.o_manifest c:\users\rev\documents\visual~1\projects\program\objfre_wxp_x86\i386\myapp.o_manifest.temp 2>nul
1> preprocessor -o c:\users\rev\documents\visual~1\projects\program\objfre_wxp_x86\i386\myapp.o_manifest.temp -i .\myapp.manifest -DSXS_ASSEMBLY_NAME="\"Program\"" -DSXS_LANGUAGE="\"0000\"" -DSXS_ASSEMBLY_LANGUAGE="\"0000\"" -DSXS_PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE="\"x86\"" -DSXS_TARGET="\"program.exe\"" -DSYSTEM_COMPATIBLE_ASSEMBLY_NAME="\"Microsoft.Windows.SystemCompatible\"" -DLSYSTEM_COMPATIBLE_ASSEMBLY_NAME=L"\"Microsoft.Windows.SystemCompatible\"" -DSXS_ASSEMBLY_VERSION="\"1.0.0.0\""
1> move c:\users\rev\documents\visual~1\projects\program\objfre_wxp_x86\i386\myapp.o_manifest.temp c:\users\rev\documents\visual~1\projects\program\objfre_wxp_x86\i386\myapp.o_manifest >nul
Faktycznie tworzy się myapp.o_manifest z poprawnym manifestem, ale w zasobach nic nie ma.
Dopiero po osobnym dołączeniu manifestu poprzez mt.exe -manifest myapp.o_manifest -outputresource:Program.exe jest wszystko w porządku.
myapp.manifest: http://pastebin.com/1UeK3gmi
sources: http://pastebin.com/vSvUSEPe