CMake RequireAdministrator

Question

I'm trying to set the RequireAdministrator manifest flag on an executable I'm building with CMake and Visual Studio.

Any ideas on how to direct CMake to set that option?

Thanks!

Billy3

Answer 1

I appreciate that the question is tagged visual-studio-2008, but for VS2010 this produces the following error message:

error MSB4030: "level='requireAdministrator' uiAccess='false'" is an invalid value for the "UACUIAccess" parameter of the "Link" task. The "UACUIAccess" parameter is of type "System.Boolean".

An equivalent CMake command (disregarding the /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS portion) for VS2010 is

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(your_executable PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "/level='requireAdministrator' /uiAccess='false'")

Answer 2

try this:

SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(your_executable PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS    "/MANIFESTUAC:\"level='requireAdministrator' uiAccess='false'\" /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS")

Answer 3

If it is a console app, you need to remove the "/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS".

try this:

set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS " /MANIFESTUAC:\"level='requireAdministrator' uiAccess='false'\" ")