bsdtar's -C/--directory option calls SetCurrentDirectoryW(), which is
limited to MAX_PATH (260) characters unless the process opts in to long
path support via an application manifest declaring longPathAware.
Extracting into (or changing into) a directory whose path exceeds 260
characters fails with "could not chdir".
Embed a longPathAware application manifest into bsdtar.exe so these
operations work for long destination paths. Both Windows build systems
(CMake and the autotools/Makefile.am build) embed it, using different
mechanisms per toolchain:
- MinGW/Clang (GNU ld) do not generate an application manifest, so it
is compiled from a resource script (bsdtar.rc) via windres. This
manifest replaces the toolchain default, so it also declares the
asInvoker execution level explicitly.
- MSVC's linker already embeds a manifest (resource id 1); a duplicate
RT_MANIFEST resource fails to link (CVT1100). Instead the manifest is
merged into the linker's default manifest (asInvoker) by adding it to
the target sources.
Reyad Attiyat