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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. 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.