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Luca Matteis
Luca Matteis

Reputation: 29267

How to enable visual styles without a manifest

I am referring to this answer How to enable visual styles without a manifest

Doing what that answers says creates a .manifest and visual styles are enabled. However I don't want the manifest to be bounded with my .exe - I am delivering only my executable and would like everything bundled in there.

Is there a way to enable visual styles without manifest or maybe through embedding the manifest inside the executable itself?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1846

Answers (2)

Hans Passant
Hans Passant

Reputation: 941217

Use mt.exe to embed the manifest into the executable as a resource. This is a standard part of the build since VS2005, use a project template if you have trouble setting it up properly.

Upvotes: 5

Alex F
Alex F

Reputation: 43311

Add this to the end of stdafx.h file:


#if defined _M_IX86

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

#elif defined _M_IA64

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='ia64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

#elif defined _M_X64

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

#else

#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

#endif

Upvotes: 2

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