manifest

[jimg]

An excellent suggestion.  Thanks!

[jimg]

maybe not.
now I get

POLINK: fatal error: File not found: ''-manifestdependency:type=Win32.obj'.

[Vortex]

Hi jimg,

Reading Pelles manual :

/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY option (POLINK) [5.00]
 
Syntax:
/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:dependency

Description:

The /MANIFESTDEPENDENCY option adds a dependency to the manifest created by the /MANIFEST option. The linker will not validate the dependency argument, the string is written as specified to the manifest. Since the dependency usually contain spaces the entire option, or the dependency argument, must be enclosed in single or double quotation marks: "/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:string with spaces" or /MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:"string with spaces".

When the /MANIFESTDEPENDENCY option is used the /MANIFEST option is implied.

Here is an example of a dependency (note the use of both single and double quotation marks):

/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='X86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'"

See Microsoft Windows documentation for more information about manifests.

Could you check this article?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/manifestdependency-specify-manifest-dependencies?view=msvc-170

[jimg]

okay, this is entirely new.
does this go in the asm file where the other one was?
do I need quotes around the /MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:"typ.... within the .drectve segment info block?  Everything else seems to be within single or double quotes.

[jimg]

So I put everything back and it doesn't work anymore 
No idea what's different.

[jimg]

okay, all back together.

Ended up using version 8.00 of polink from 3/21/2015

[Vortex]

Hi jimg,

Here is another attempt. First of all, thanks to Sinsi for sharing his response file embedding manifests :

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myfile.rsp
/manifest:embed
/manifestdependency:"type='Win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'"
/manifestuac:"level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'"

Here are what I did :

 - I removed the drectve section from my source file.
 - Following Sinsi's response files, I edited my batch file :

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\masm32\bin\ml /c /coff EmbedManifest.asm
\masm32\bin\polink /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS EmbedManifest.obj /manifest:embed /manifestdependency:"type='Win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'" /manifestuac:"level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'"
  - Object module linked with Pelles Linker, Version 12.00.0
  - After building the project, I extracted the manifest file with Resource Hacker V5.2.7 Build 427 :

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>
<assembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1' manifestVersion='1.0'>
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges>
        <requestedExecutionLevel level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false' />
      </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>
  <dependency>
    <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity type='Win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*' />
    </dependentAssembly>
  </dependency>
</assembly>


[Vortex]

Hi jimg,

Returning back to the drectve section method supported by Uasm :

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.drectve SEGMENT INFO
    db 34,"-manifestdependency:type='Win32'"
    db " name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls'"
    db " version='6.0.0.0'"
    db " processorArchitecture='*'"
    db " publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df'"
    db " language='*'", 34
    db " -manifestuac:",34,"level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'",34
    db " -manifest:embed "
.drectve ENDS

[jj2007]

Returning back to the drectve section method supported by Uasm :

This is weird. Without OPTION DOTNAME, UAsm accepts (i.e. throws no error for) drectve SEGMENT INFO without the dot but it has no effect

So this works with polink version 8 but not version 9:

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OPTION DOTNAME
.drectve SEGMENT INFO
    db 34,"-manifestdependency:type='Win32'"
    db " name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls'"
    db " version='6.0.0.0'"
    db " processorArchitecture='*'"
    db " publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df'"
    db " language='*'", 34
    db " -manifestuac:",34,"level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'",34
    db " -manifest:embed "
.drectve ENDS
end WinMain ; (or start, whatever)

[jimg]

It worked!

Many thanks to both of you guys for time and patience and expertise :)