Custom manifest file specification - file does not exist

[Roger Cigol 88]

Working with Alexandria 11.2 - I am using a C++ builder Win 32 "classic" VCL project. If I use project options and specify a "custom" windows manifest file it allows me to specify a full path to a manifest file that I can manually create (and the IDE encourages me to use an extension *.manifest). If I enter a full path to a custom manifest file but (owing to my mistake) this manifest file does not exist the project still builds my *.exe target file without reporting an error. But (obivously) the resulting *.exe file cannot include the custom manifest information that I intended. I would have expected a linker error "can't find manifest file xxxxMyCustomFileNameHerexxx.manifest" rather than letting my mistake pass through unnoticed.

 

Can anyone else confirm that they get the same behaviour (also with a Delphi VCL 32 bit project ?)....