[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] 1.2.3 makefile.msc usability & rc fix (too late)

[Andrei Polushin]

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Cosmin Truta wrote:
>> But is the manifest necessary? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Does it not cause the build to fail on vc6 (which, by the way, appears
>> to be most popular among programmers who are not interested in .Net)?
> 
> No.  Notice the use of if exist $@.manifest before we go to work.  For any
> traditional compiler users, the manifest changes don't get triggered.

Probably you are to supply the configured manifests (and other files),
as long as they are required to build properly.

To build it on MSVC 6.0, we can detect MSVC version from NMAKE, see the
attached patch for an example.

--
Andrei Polushin
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