Somebody interested in porting mingw manifest support into cmake ?

[Stephen Kelly]

Ralf Habacker wrote:

> cmake seems to have some kind of command hooks  see
> 
http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=blob;f=Tests/MacroTest/CMakeLists.txt;h=02bb31f208e661cd0fe0c879d4a2ea14cd1c425a;hb=HEAD#l45
> 

That's not really a command hook. It's more like an override. Any command, 
function or macro can be overridden and the original is made available with 
an underscore.

> This means with
> - the mt binary
> - a macro added to ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/Platform/Windows-GNU.cmake
> - and the manifest template at ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Templates/Win32.Manifest.in
> is only required.
> 
> if (MINGW)
>      set (MT_EXECUTABLE ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Binaries/mt.exe)
> endif
> if (MINGW AND MT_EXECUTABLE)
> 
> macro(ADD_EXECUTABLE _target)
>    _add_executable( ${_target} ${ARGN} )
>    get_target_property(_executable ${_target} LOCATION )
> 
>    set(_manifest ${CMAKE_ROOT}/Templates/Win32.Manifest.in)
>    add_custom_command(TARGET ${_target}
>                       POST_BUILD
>                       COMMAND ${MT_EXECUTABLE}
>                       ARGS -manifest
>                       ${_manifest}-updateresource:${_executable} COMMENT
>                       "adding vista trustInfo manifest")
> 
> endmacro()
> 
> endif()
> 
> Does anyone see any problems with this approach ?

This discussion should be on the cmake mailing list. That's where you'll 
reach the right people.

Thanks,

Steve.