Yeah, thanks. Luckily, I figured this out and, yes, you do need a manifest file. It needs an entry that looks like this:
Code:
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" />
What's more, according to the Microsoft documentation, this actually needs to be all in one line. This makes no sense since any XML parser should parse it regardless of how you organize the syntax elements so one can only conclude that they're not actually using a real XML parser...