On windows, many executables have an assembly manifest embedded. This sets among other things the JDK version. Our current handling of this is sub-optimal, using template files that are modified at build time. Instead, a command line option to MT, the manifest processor, can be used.

At places we also try to include manifest information twice, using the old style of declaring the manifest file in an .rc file. This is not needed when we use MT for post-processing.