Trouble compiling with msvc80 and possible solution

[Michael Leupold]

Hi there,

I tried emerging KDE today and had some trouble compiling. I hope this 
has not been brought up before:

On msvc80 (2005) kdewin's own manifest tool mt.exe clashes with the one 
supplied by the compiler. With the standard environment cmake always 
detected the one in %KDEROOT%\bin first but assumed it was the Microsoft 
one.

Thus it tried to compile like this:
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D:/kderoot/bin/mt.exe /nologo /out:automoc4.exe.embed.manifest 
/notify_update /manifest automoc4.exe.intermediate.manifest
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Obviously this won't work because the mt.exe called doesn't understand 
command-line options given with / as a prefix (I tried changing to "-" 
and it worked). Instead you end up with an empty manifest and binaries 
which don't find their runtime library.

Now I'm wondering if there's a reason why the mt build is only excluded 
when using msvc90? I checked and both PSDK 2003 R2 and MSVC2005 seem to 
ship it (and it seems to work as well).

Regards,
Michael