Trouble compiling with msvc80 and possible solution

[Ralf Habacker]

Michael Leupold schrieb:
> 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:
> -----------------
> D:/kderoot/bin/mt.exe /nologo /out:automoc4.exe.embed.manifest 
> /notify_update /manifest automoc4.exe.intermediate.manifest
> -----------------
>
> 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.
>   
this issue is fixed in svn - please run
emerge --update kdewin

> 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).
>   
The msvc2005 mt tool does not have support to handle uac manifests 
required for vista and later and requires a self contained mt tool.

Regards
 Ralf