The manifest file was introduced around Windows 7 timeframe, as I recall, as
part of Microsoft’s slow revamp of many of their unmanaged code practices
(DLLs, etc) to gain benefit from some of the things they’d learned from managed
code. It’s been a while since I did any unmanaged Windows develop
On 17/11/2017 17:15, Erik Joelsson wrote:
I don't know what the manifest file is for, but if it's in the wrong
place I would blame jlink for messing it up.
jlink doesn't know anything about Windows manifests files. I think the
issue here is that jdk.hotspot.agent.jmod contains
lib/sawindbg.dl