It's also possible to embed the manifest file in the executable by running

   mt /manifest whatever.exe.manifest /outputresource:whatever.exe;#1
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in the directory in which the manifest file was originally created during compilation. The same thing works for dlls, except a #2 is used at the end, rather than #1. If this is done, the manifest file need not be manually moved to the installation directory.

By the way, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, as of version 6.33, will do this automatically when building xs extensions.