[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: windows-default-manifest-6.3-1

[Marco Atzeri]

On 25/06/2014 10:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I just uploaded windows-default-manifest-6.3-1.
>
> This new package contains nothing but a default application
> compatibility manifest, which gets linked in by GCC by default, and
> which is supposed to claim compatibility with the latest Windows
> versions available at the time.
>
> Adding such a manifest got necessary due to a change in Windows 8.1.  On
> earlier OS versions, applications without manifest were treated as
> compatible with the current OS.  Starting with Windows 8.1, an
> executable without manifest is treated as being compatible only with the
> oldest supported OS version of the OS compatibility layer.
>
> That means, all applications without manifest are running in a Window
> Vista compatibility layer on Windows 8.1.  This affects all Cygwin
> executables to date.  By adding the default manifest to newly built
> packages, we're slowly getting to run our executables with full OS
> compatibility.

Does this mean we should rebuilt all the application to
make W8.1 happy ?

Grrr ....

>
> Live long and prosper,
> Corinna
>
Marco

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