[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5.0 and manifest files

[Benjamin Sonnemann]

AFAIK you are on very thin ice there, as the debug CRT is NOT
redistributable! Else stick with Torrin Jones advice.

Benjamin Sonnemann


2009/3/23 Torrin Jones <tjones.job at gmail.com>

> Install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package on the end
> users system.  Then you don't have to worry about those files not being in
> the place.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Pascal Patry <iscy at invalidip.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm experiencing a problem that has to do with manifest files since I
>> switched to Qt
>> 4.5.0. I'm bundling the application using this directory structure:
>>
>> app
>>  \bin
>>    app.exe
>>    Qt*.dll
>>    msvc[rmp]90d.dll
>>    Microsoft.VC90.DebugCRT.manifest
>>  \plugins
>>    \imageformats
>>      qjpegd4.dll
>>
>> Previously, that used to work on both platform considering and ignore
>> manifest files. Now,
>> XP SP2+ and Vista (platform considering manifest files) are not able to
>> load the jpeg
>> plugin. The error written to the debug output on XP is:
>>
>> LDR: LdrpWalkImportDescriptor() failed to probe C:\Program
>> Files\app\plugins\imageformats\qjpegd4.dll for its manifest, ntstatus
>> 0xc0150002
>>
>> The event viewer shows that the depency on 'VC90.DebugCRT.manifest' is not
>> correctly
>> satisfied. So, if I copy "Microsoft.VC90.DebugCRT.manifest" and the 3
>> msvc[rmp]90d.dll to
>> the directory "app\plugins\imageformats\.", then the application will be
>> able to load the
>> plugin correctly. However, this is not an acceptable workaround. I have a
>> few more
>> directories with plugins (like sqldrivers, codecs, ...) and I would then
>> need to copy
>> these files to all of them.
>>
>> It used to work before because manifest files were not embedded inside
>> DLL. The change was
>> probably done because new platforms will now require a manifest for every
>> executable and
>> dll. So is there any way of achieving this cleanly without removing the
>> manifest inside
>> the DLLs and duplicating the DebugCRT one?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
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