ENH: Adding flags to force generation of manifest files when building with VC 8.

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/CMakeVCManifest.cmake b/Modules/CMakeVCManifest.cmake
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+
+# Leave the first line of this file empty so this module will not be
+# included in the documentation.
+
+# This script is invoked from Windows-cl.cmake and passed the TARGET
+# variable on the command line.
+
+# Conditionally embed the manifest in the executable if it exists.
+IF(EXISTS "${TARGET}.manifest")
+  # Construct the manifest embedding command.
+  SET(CMD
+    mt ${CMAKE_CL_NOLOGO} /manifest ${TARGET}.manifest
+    /outputresource:${TARGET}
+    )
+
+  # Run the embedding command.
+  EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${CMD}\;\#2 RESULT_VARIABLE RESULT)
+
+  # Check whether the command failed.
+  IF(NOT "${RESULT}" MATCHES "^0$")
+    # The embedding failed remove the target and the manifest.
+    FILE(REMOVE ${TARGET} ${TARGET}.manifest)
+
+    # Describe the failure in a message.
+    STRING(REGEX REPLACE ";" " " CMD "${CMD}")
+    MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR
+      "Failed to embed manifest in ${TARGET} using command \"${CMD};#2\""
+      )
+  ENDIF(NOT "${RESULT}" MATCHES "^0$")
+ENDIF(EXISTS "${TARGET}.manifest")