[Haskell-cafe] A small question

[Jeremy O'Donoghue]

On 16/11/2007, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
> > On Nov 15, 2007 6:56 PM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I notice that in GHC 6.8.1, if I compile a runnably program, as well as
> >> generating foo.exe, GHC now also generates a file foo.exe.manifest,
> >> which appears to contain some kind of XML data. Anybody know anything
> >> about this mysterious file?
> >>
> >
> > I think it's a Windows Vista Manifest (used to let the OS know what
> > user privileges are required to run the application).
> >
>
> Ah, right. That makes sense...
>

Not just Windows Vista. Applications and DLLs compiled with Visual
Studio 2005 (Express or full version) seem to need it to run on XP as
well.

Basically it contains a list of *exactly* which libraries were used to
link the application, as well as permissions. It's alleged to
eliminate DLL hell (which it does by replacing it with Manifest hell).