Re: [Mingw-users] proposal to include c++ ABI ref in building DLL faqs

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>:

>
> Quoting Marc Vaillant <vai...@fa...>:
>
>> First, it appears that there is no access to much of the FAQ, neither
>> from the new wiki nor the old.
>>
>> I think the distinction between c and c++ ABI needs to clear and up
>> front in the various faqs on linking to dlls built from other compilers.
>> E.g. by citing http://aegisknight.org/cppinterface.html.
>> I realize that there is the "mixing compilers" or mixobjects faq but
>> people usually stumble across "How can an MSVC program call an MinGW
>> DLL, and vice versa?" first and assume that c++ dlls are just going to
>> work the same way.  Also, I think that the "How do I create a DLL" faq
>> should have the reference up front as well (it might already, I can't
>> remember but the page isn't available and I don't feel like hunting down
>> a cached version).
>>
>
> My work goal for wiki is:
>
> 1) Rework FAQ/HOWTO so that all data is moved from the old to the
> current wiki.
> 2) Rework FAQ/HOWTO navigation
>
> Some of this work is happening in parallel as I move from link to link.
>  In particular I'm reworking the FAQ so that the FAQ page is more an
> index of information and the data will be in the subsequent pages.  I'm
> also hoping that proper tagging will help find the relevant related
> information.  Once that is complete another pass-through will be
> accomplished again focusing on navigation but also focusing on the
> presentation and relevance of the data.
>

FYI, my time toward these tasks is limited between 2 to 4 hours a week.

Earnie