Manifest problems

[JH Trauntvein]

Guy Fawkes wrote:
> wxMSW 2.7.0-1
> Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
>
> I've compiled the wxWidgets library and there is a wx.manifest file in the
> include\wx\msw directory.
>
> I've compiled a project (which I converted from Visual C++ 6 and which
> compiled and ran fine under it) and the compilation seems to go well under
> Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (thanks to the wxWiki).
>
> I'm now getting linker errors, though:
>
> Linking...
> Creating Manifest...
> .\wx\msw\wx.manifest: general error c1010070: Failed to load and parse the
> manifest. The system could not find the specified path
>
> The project executable *IS* created, though I can't seem to start it since
> it can't find the MSVCR80.DLL. It's on the hard drive but I can't just copy
> it to the directory where the executable resides. It seems MS has made it
> more difiicult to get something working, probably has something to do with
> .NET.
>
> It looks like it's trying to create the manifest for my project and it's
> tyring to find the wxWidgets manifest and can't find it. The wxWidgets
> include directory is in the include path, though.
>
> Anyone know what I need to do to get this to work properly?


You might be facing two issues, one with loading the c++ run time DLL.
The other is someting that I ran in to a while back.  It turns out that
the wxWidgets resource file, which you generally need to include in
your own, also incorporates a manifest resource.  The problem that I
ran into was that I had already created a manifest resource for my
application so I got really nasty link and load errors.  The wx.rc file
uses a precompiler macro, wxUSE_NO_MANIFEST, to control whether that
manifest is included.  I attempted to define this in my project and
found that it didn't seem to work so I wound up editing the wx.rc file
to remove the manifest manually.  I have since found out that, under
visual studio 2005, the project manager uses its own set of definitions
for the resource compiler and none of the c/c++ compiler definitions
filter over.  

Regards,

Jon Trauntvein