[cmake-developers] Creating Windows 7 manifests with mingw builds

[Ralf Habacker]

Am 01.04.2013 16:13, schrieb Brad King:
> On 03/30/2013 02:17 PM, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> Because gnu linker is not able to add manifests directly, an additional
>> step is required. The following approach should work for this case as
>> far as i can see.
>>
>> - add the the mt binary to ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Binaries/ so that it is not in
>> the search path (to not conflict with msvc provided mt)
> Yes, we can find a place to install it that is not next to "cmake.exe"
> so it won't be in the PATH.  We could also build it into CMake as
> "cmake -E mt" or something since we can fold in the generously
> licensed implementation.
>
>> - add the macro below to ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/Platform/Windows-GNU.cmake
> The macro-replacement of builtin commands is a debugging feature.
> We can find another way to execute this.  Basically it just needs
> to be run right after the linker, right?
yes

Ralf