[Bug ld/16807] Bad behavior with resources of Windows applications with recent binutils upgrade on Cygwin64

[angelo.graziosi at alice dot it]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16807

--- Comment #2 from Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi at alice dot it> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #1)
> Hi Corinna,
> 
>    I have started looking into this bug, but I am a bit stumped. :-(
> 
>    I guess that the problem is connected with the default manifest being 
> added in to the executable's resources.  But looking at the decompiled 
> resources in the dlg_one.out executable everything looks fine.  Then I 
> started to wonder.  Maybe it is the fact that there are now *3* top 
> level entries in the resource Type table instead of 2.  Maybe the 
> dlg_one.c application only expects there to be 2 entries and somehow it 
> is getting confused.  Unfortunately I am not enough of a Window resource 
> expert to tell.  But you are...  So - is this a possibility ?

Just for completeness, the workaround described here

   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00134.html

works for me.

It seems to confirm that the origin of these issues is this defaul manifest in
new binutils releases.


Ciao,
  Angelo.

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