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

Triune

Answer 1

try this:

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

Kenneth

Works so long as remove /SUBSYSTEM:Windows ... it's a console app :) – Triune

Note that these manifest settings don't seem to show up in the project properties, but they do appear in the intermediate manifest. And they are recorded in the .vcproj file. (This is with VS2008). – Brena

Answer 2

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'")

Grit

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'\" ")

Thema

Answer 4

With cmake 3.24.2 it works well with:

target_link_options(<target name> PRIVATE "/MANIFESTUAC:level='requireAdministrator'" PRIVATE "/MANIFESTUAC:uiAccess='false'")

Bureaucratic

Answer 5

Building on what Fraser said, the command that worked for me in cmake 3.9.1 and Visual Studio 10 is:

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

Anfractuosity