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Unblock the disabled node-addon-examples (lambdas, noexcept, output paths) #423

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packages/node-addon-examples/scripts/copy-examples.mts carries a list of upstream examples we deliberately skip. Most entries are disabled for reasons we accept and won't fix (they use worker_threads, process.argv, node:events, uv.h, or bring their own CMake project). Five carry TODOs instead — i.e. we intend to enable them:

https://github.com/callstackincubator/react-native-node-api/blob/29a527d87fa8cb965b0048b1b4c1cff2b0eab281/packages/node-addon-examples/scripts/copy-examples.mts#L19-L28

https://github.com/callstackincubator/react-native-node-api/blob/29a527d87fa8cb965b0048b1b4c1cff2b0eab281/packages/node-addon-examples/scripts/copy-examples.mts#L38-L40

Three distinct blockers:

  1. Lambda functions — blocks 1-getting-started/6_object_wrap/napi/, 1-getting-started/7_factory_wrap/napi/ and 2-js-to-native-conversion/8_passing_wrapped/napi/. Three examples for one fix, so this is the highest-value of the three.
  2. noexcept — blocks 2-js-to-native-conversion/object-template-demo/napi/.
  3. Output-directory mismatch — as the TODO notes, gyp-to-cmake should produce projects whose output directory matches what gyp would have produced, so that examples with a require pointing at the conventional gyp path resolve. That would unblock 5-async-work/napi-asyncworker-example/node-addon-api/ and 6-threadsafe-function/promise-callback-demo/node-addon-api/, both currently disabled with "require statement to an unexpected path".

The first two say "Fix C++ support", which is worth pinning down before anyone starts: it is not obvious from the comments whether the failure is in gyp-to-cmake's translation, in a C++ standard/flag we pass, or in the host's C++ surface. Reproducing one of the lambda cases and capturing the actual compiler error is the first step.

Each of the three can land independently. Related to the other gyp-to-cmake gaps: #98, #99, #100, #101, #102, #103.

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