There are known problems with missing manifests when building GDAL with Visual
C++ 2005. This report is dedicated to memorize the issue for fix in near
future.
Here is MSDN article "How to: Embed a Manifest Inside a C/C++ Application"
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235591.aspx
There are a number of issues reported on the mapserver lists related to this
problem, mostly for the C# binding
The proposed implementation will test the existence of the .manifest file and
embed the contents as a resource using the mt tool, like for the C# makefile
$(MAPSCRIPT_DLL): $(MAPSCRIPT_OBJS)
$(LINK) $(LDFLAGS) /out:$(MAPSCRIPT_DLL) $(MAPSCRIPT_OBJS) $(MS_LIBS)
if exist $(MAPSCRIPT_DLL).manifest mt -manifest
$(MAPSCRIPT_DLL).manifest -outputresource:$(MAPSCRIPT_DLL);#2
