[PATCH] winsup/doc/dll.xml: update MinGW/.org to MinGW-w64/.org

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 8 10:14:44 GMT 2021


On Mar  7 13:26, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2021-03-07 12:15, Jon Turney wrote:
> > On 07/03/2021 16:31, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > > ---
> > >   winsup/doc/dll.xml | 5 +++--
> > >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> > I don't think the link here actually has much value, and would be
> > inclined to drop it, as far as I can tell it's just giving that as an
> > example of a toolchain which produces 'lib'-prefixed DLLs.
> > 
> > Also, reading the whole page, the section "Linking against DLLs" needs
> > updating since GNU ld has had the ability to link directly against DLLs
> > (automatically generating the necessary import stubs) for a number of
> > years.
> > 
> > Also, there are other mentions of MinGW.org on the cygwin website (e.g.
> > https://cygwin.com/links.html) which also need updating, if that URL is
> > no longer valid.
> 
> I checked the tree and Corinna cleaned up some a few years ago.
> 
> I already checked winsup/doc/ and there were no other substantive uses of
> MinGW unless you would prefer *ALL* mentions of MinGW be suffixed with -w64.
> 
> I did not look closely at cygwin-htdocs, as git complained when I tried to
> update, so I wiped that repo,

If git complained, your repo was just not in the latets state.
Maybe just using `git reset --hard origin/master' would have fixed it.


Corinna


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