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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f3156e --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Privilege check +=============== + +Check your privilege. On Windows. + +Displays a window, showing + +* if the current user belongs to the BUILTIN\Administrators group, +* whether the process is "run as Administrator", +* if it has elevated privileges, +* process's "integrity level". + +If it's not "run as Administrator", a button allows to actually re-run the +executable as Administrator, utilizing Windows' User Account Control feature. + +Building +-------- + +Create the build files using CMake and build using your native build tools +(Visual Studio/make/etc.). + +For example, using Visual Studio Community 2015 Update 3 (targetting x86-64): + + > cd + D:\workspace\build\privilege-check\msvc + + > cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" D:\workspace\personal\privilege-check + ... + + > cmake --build . --config release + ... + +Another example, using Cygwin + MinGW-w64 + `make` (again, targetting x86-64): + + > pwd + /cygdrive/d/workspace/build/privilege-check/mingw/release + + > cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" \ + -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ + -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ + /cygdrive/d/workspace/personal/privilege-test + ... + + > cmake --build . + ... + +License +------- + +Distributed under the MIT License. +See [LICENSE.txt] for details. + +[LICENSE.txt]: LICENSE.txt |