Re: Symbol Resolution (Was: Whither Windows (Was: Re: Intent to revert commit r1332643))

2013-05-24 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On Fri, 24 May 2013 09:26:34 -0400 Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On May 24, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Trawick traw...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of us are employees of or otherwise manage to siphon money from these companies. Make a pitch... (And some of us are happy to freelance ;)

Re: Symbol Resolution (Was: Whither Windows (Was: Re: Intent to revert commit r1332643))

2013-05-24 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:13 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: That fortunately is documented, with some pretty good notes in the wiki as well that aught to percolate into the docs. That said, documenting every Microsoft-version-quirk seems out of scope for a general purpose

Re: Symbol Resolution (Was: Whither Windows (Was: Re: Intent to revert commit r1332643))

2013-05-24 Thread Guenter Knauf
On 24.05.2013 21:37, Ben Reser wrote: The build system should be able to compile with the major tool chains, nobody expects to know how to work around weird autoconf, make, gcc, etc quirks on Linux. I don't say this to be dismissive of anyones contributions but just to point out that producing

Re: Symbol Resolution (Was: Whither Windows (Was: Re: Intent to revert commit r1332643))

2013-05-24 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On Fri, 24 May 2013 21:53:50 +0200 Guenter Knauf fua...@apache.org wrote: On 24.05.2013 21:37, Ben Reser wrote: The build system should be able to compile with the major tool chains, nobody expects to know how to work around weird autoconf, make, gcc, etc quirks on Linux. I don't say this

Re: Symbol Resolution (Was: Whither Windows (Was: Re: Intent to revert commit r1332643))

2013-05-24 Thread Gregg Smith
On 5/24/2013 12:53 PM, Guenter Knauf wrote: yeah ...; and from what I see our project files are already broken even when not converted and used directly with MSVC6, f.e. when doing a release build a bunch of files land in the debug folder, and finally at linking stage it breaks ...