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diff --git a/pkg/windows/README.md b/pkg/windows/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7be701bf --- /dev/null +++ b/pkg/windows/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +This directory contains a Windows manifest for various Windows-specific +settings. + +The main thing we enable here is [`longPathAware`], which permits paths of the +form `C:\` to be longer than 260 characters. + +The approach taken here was modeled off of a [similar change for `rustc`][rustc pr]. +In particular, this manifest gets linked into the final binary. Those linker +arguments are applied in `build.rs`. + +This currently only applies to MSVC builds. If there's an easy way to make this +apply to GNU builds as well, then patches are welcome. + +[`longPathAware`]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests#longpathaware +[rustc pr]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/96737 |