In ExtUtils::MM_Win32 I find this:
# VS2005 (aka VC 8) or higher, but not for 64-bit compiler from
# Platform SDK
if ($Config{ivsize} == 4 && $Config{cc} eq 'cl' and
$Config{ccversion} =~ /^(\d+)/ and $1 >= 14)
{
push(@m, q{
mt -nologo -manifest $...@.manifest -outputresource:$@;2 && del
$...@.manifest});
}
In the Makefile this ends up right after the link command.
This code was added in 5.10, but it was not activated until build 1004
of ActivePerl. In AS1002 which I've used so far, ActivePerl::Config
never looks for the Visual C++ compiler, nor the version of it, so
the hardcoded version 12.00.something applies. But recently I got a
mail from a guy who tried to build my module with AS1004 and got an
error at the mt command, because I had no manifest file.
What is supposed to achieve? Anything at all? In such case, what am I
as a module author supposed to do with it? I may be missing something, but
I can't make out any sense of it. As far as I understand, this manifest
business has to with managed code, and XS modules count as native code
as far as I know.
So it looks like a bug, but I've been wrong before.
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
