Embed manifest file to require administrator execution level with mingw32

Question

I\'m cross compiling an application with i586-mingw32msvc under ubuntu.

I\'m having difficulties understanding how to embed a manifest file to require administrator exec

Answer 1

With regard to the magic voodoo numbers 1 and 24:

1 24 "hello.exe.manifest"

That line translates to somthing like this:

ID_MANIFEST RT_MANIFEST "hello.exe.manifest"

where those defines are as defined as follows:

#define ID_MANIFEST 1
#ifndef RT_MANIFEST
#define RT_MANIFEST MAKEINTRESOURCE(24)
#endif

As shown above by the conditional wrappers, the RT_MANIFEST might already be defined and if you do a Google search for that RT_MANIFEST term you will find lots of hits with more details on what is going on.

Answer 2

With some intense voodoo I got it to work with this on my hello.rc file:

1 24 "hello.exe.manifest"

Won't even search to know what the 24 is for (resource type manifest?!).. :-)