Summary

compile manifest into chicken-install and chicken-uninstall programs

Metadata

• Id: ca170926c5bf44e602b3d57cbb61f179f62e925f
• Trac id: 185
• Type: defect
• Reporter: felix
• Owner: felix
• Cc: chust
• Status: closed
• Component: build system
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: fixed
• Priority: major
• Milestone: 4.5.0
• Version: 4.4.x
• Changetime: 2010-03-27 11:00:44 UTC
• Created: 2010-03-13 13:41:41 UTC
• Keywords: manifest windows

Attachments

• ca170926c5bf44e602b3d57cbb61f179f62e925f/attachments/chicken-4.4.0-manifests.patch

Description

Embedding a manifest will avoid the "elevation" required by Windows Vista and later versions for programs that have "install" in their name.

Attached patch from Thomas Chust will do the necessary to compile and embed the manifest.

Changes and comments

[2010-03-13 13:41:56 UTC] felix attached chicken-4.4.0-manifests.patch (description=#f)

[2010-03-13 13:42:29 UTC] felix wrote:

The following thread provides some background information:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowssecurity/thread/73f86e9e-928f-40b7-8dd5-27e40db6997e

[2010-03-27 11:00:44 UTC] felix changed status from new to closed

[2010-03-27 11:00:44 UTC] felix set resolution to fixed

[2010-03-27 11:00:44 UTC] felix wrote:

Patch applied in c1b3d35d78bfabf9bb989d4204ede10619e2cf8c (master)