[CMake] cpack, nsis and visual studio 9

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Sep 4 10:00:09 EDT 2008


Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> It creates executables that embed the old version of the manifest, but ships
>> with redist manifests that are the old (pre service pack) manifests.  I wonder
>> if you did a simple text edit on the redist manifests if it would work....
>> Maybe the .dll's are correct but the .manifest files are wrong....
> 
> The dll and the manifest match, it's indeed the !@#$% executable that's wrong.
> Maybe we should splash out for a non-express version of VS...
>

Looks like they know about it:

 
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=361682

This is in the non-express version as well.  The fix seems to be to edit 
the manifest file by hand in the redist directory.

-Bill


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