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Author lemburg
Recipients DNS, amaury.forgeotdarc, lemburg, loewis, paxan
Date 2009-02-17.22:08:19
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On 2009-02-17 20:22, Pavel Repin wrote:
> Pavel Repin <prepin+pythonbugs@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> I'd like to point out that on some configurations (at least mine), you 
> really need to specify /MANIFEST option to the linker, even though MSDN 
> documentation seems to imply that /MANIFEST behavior is ON by default.
> My config:
> beta version of Windows 7
> ActivePython 2.6.1.1
> MSVS 2008 with 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.21022.08 
> for 80x86

Are you sure ?

We've had such a request before and the reason for MSVC not generating
a .manifest file was some setting the user had done on his system.

FWIW: distutils generates those files just fine for me.

Then again, it probably doesn't hurt just adding the option.
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