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Reputation: 5023

Manifest for an exe?

I have an executable say A.exe, which finds architecture of the OS and depends on the architecture it calls either A64.exe or A86.exe. In this case do I want to have manifests for all the exe's ( A.exe, A64.exe, A86.exe )? Right now I have manifest only for A.exe?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 483

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612964

Yes, each module needs its own manifest.

In your case, if you were to start A64.exe from A.exe, and A64.exe does not have a manifest, then A64 will run virtualized, it will not have access to comctl32 v6 and so on. A process does not inherit its manifest from the process that creates it, each process must supply its own manifest.

Upvotes: 3

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