Re: [Haskell-cafe] A small question

On 16/11/2007, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

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On Nov 15, 2007 6:56 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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I notice that in GHC 6.8.1, if I compile a runnably program, as well as generating foo.exe, GHC now also generates a file foo.exe.manifest, which appears to contain some kind of XML data. Anybody know anything about this mysterious file?

I think it's a Windows Vista Manifest (used to let the OS know what user privileges are required to run the application).

Ah, right. That makes sense...

Not just Windows Vista. Applications and DLLs compiled with Visual Studio 2005 (Express or full version) seem to need it to run on XP as well. Basically it contains a list of *exactly* which libraries were used to link the application, as well as permissions. It's alleged to eliminate DLL hell (which it does by replacing it with Manifest hell).