How does one attach a manifest file to a D executable on Windows?

[John Chapman]

On Saturday, 25 May 2024 at 13:13:08 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
> No, I meant something like this:
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/cookbook-overview

Not tested but from memory I do this:

1) Copy that first XML snippet from the page you linked, save to 
a file called example.exe.manifest
2) Create a resource script file called resources.rc, with this 
at the top:
    1 24 "example.exe.manifest"
3) Compile it with rc.exe
4) Include the resulting resources.res on your DMD command line

You might also need to call InitCommonControls or 
InitCommonControlsEx before creating any windows.