How can I add /MANIFESTUAC:level='requireAdministrator' to a specific windows binary in Cargo.toml in a multi-binary package?

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How can I add /MANIFESTUAC:level='requireAdministrator' to a specific windows binary in Cargo.toml in a multi-binary package?

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I think the more general question is: What is the easiest way to add a specific linker option to a specific binary target in a multi-binary package under a specific target triple?

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Update: I just tried this in build.rs

fn main() {
    #[cfg(windows)]
    println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin=install=/MANIFESTUAC:level=\'requireAdministrator\'");
}

However, the output binary still seems to be executing with normal user privileges...

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You probably also want to add /MANIFEST:EMBED. E.g.:

println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin=install=/MANIFEST:EMBED");

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Wow! Thank you very much! This does fix this problem!
My final working build.rs is like:

fn main() {
    #[cfg(windows)]
    {
        println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin=install=/MANIFEST:EMBED");
        println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin=install=/MANIFESTUAC:level=\'requireAdministrator\'");
    }
}
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