On 12/19/25 10:34 AM, Senthil Kumar wrote:
Hello,
In Win 10 and later, Windows removed MAX_PATH path length limitations
but made it so that applications would have to opt-in by shipping a
manifest with "longPathAware" set to true.
gcc already ships with a manifest, sourced from
gcc/config/i386/winnt-utf8.manifest when built for MinGW host. The
manifest currently enables UTF-8 code page, but the XML namespaces
don't line up with Microsoft's documentation (see
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests#activeCodePage)
and also
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2025-December/702559.html.
This patch fixes that and also adds longPathAware to the
settings. Verified by inspecting the PEB on a Windows machine with the
registry settings also configured to turn on long path support.
Ok for master?
Sorry, I missed this email due to bad sorting. Can you please split this
into 2 commits?
LH, any comments?
gcc/ChangeLog:
* config/i386/winnt-utf8.manifest: Fix namespaces and set
longPathAware to true.
diff --git a/gcc/config/i386/winnt-utf8.manifest
b/gcc/config/i386/winnt-utf8.manifest
index dab929e1515..c0bdb362c7b 100644
--- a/gcc/config/i386/winnt-utf8.manifest
+++ b/gcc/config/i386/winnt-utf8.manifest
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
-<assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
- <application>
- <windowsSettings>
- <activeCodePage
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2019/WindowsSettings";>UTF-8</activeCodePage>
- </windowsSettings>
- </application>
-</assembly>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<assembly manifestVersion="1.0"
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
+ <asmv3:application>
+ <asmv3:windowsSettings>
+ <longPathAware
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2016/WindowsSettings";>true</longPathAware>
+ <activeCodePage
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2019/WindowsSettings";>UTF-8</activeCodePage>
+ </asmv3:windowsSettings>
+ </asmv3:application>
+</assembly>
