compiler for KDE on Windows (was: Digikam on Windows)

[Christian Ehrlicher]

> Von: Bernhard Reiter
> On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > I'm thinking about dropping msvc2005 for kde4.4. Don't know what to do
> > about mingw though...
> 
> I have an interest of keeping mingw.
> 
> The reason is that it can be controlled better as
> it is Free Software and that it enables cross-compilation.
> Cross compilation is important as it makes it easier to automate
> a test and build process, including the necessary steps to compile the 
> matching source code for each distributable binary.
> 
The problem with mingw (3.4.x and 4.x) is that they don't support the crappy manifest things and we need to build something around this. Maybe with a custom PRE_BUILD command or something. But someone has to figure it out...

So we need a small tool which
- reads the current manifest resource (so we could also use it for msvc2005 which already adds a small manifest but which is not enough)
- modifies it to accomplish with Vista and up
- writes it back to the executable/library
I tested this already (manually) and vista accepted my modified manifest and executed update_mime_database without asking the user :)

If someone knows how to read resources from executables (and maybe has a working example) let me know...


Christian
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