compiler for KDE on Windows

[Ralf Habacker]

Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
>> 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...
>   
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/dynares.aspx may help.

Ralf