Open C (13)
Mobile Physics
Draw abstract objects on the screen; they will instantly get physical properties! Physics engines simulate behaviour and motion of objects in a virtual world. With the increased processor resources available on today’s...
mopius, 11 March 2009 |
Retrieve STDERR in Open C
During the debugging and unit test cases running phase, open source projects usually write error string or other information to STDERR file. Quite unluckily, we can not retrieve lines from STDERR in Symbian with Open C. The stdioserver program comes with Open C SDK only...
Limitation on Open C which matters HUGE project like Mozilla
Open C is a quite powerful tool when porting open source projects to Symbian OS platform. But a mobile kitty is not a desktop monster, it doesn't have a so powerful kernel, especially you encountered some design limitations. For small projects which don't utilize lower or...
Evaluate the project before porting
Porting an open source project is quite different from developing a new application for mobile phones. During past days without Open C , we have to rewrite lots of code to satisfy both Symbian OS rules/limitation and difference between mobile devices and desktop computers....
And Now For Something Entirely Different
Ah the words I loved to hear right after the giant foot smashes the nude lady as the band plays Sousa’s Liberty Bell march. What, you only know Monty Python’s Flying Circus from movies and the dead parrot bit? The 45 episodes that began in 1969 have...
An Open C test drive
Some time ago I decided to test drive Open C to see how the first release performs. Instead of writing my own code from scratch, I took an existing open source project and tried to port that to Symbian. Because once upon a time I considered writing my own XMPP Symbian...
Event notice: Open source apps to S60 platform
If you are attending the LinuxWorld in San Francisco on August 6-9 (and interested in porting an open source application to smartphones), it might make sense to pay a visit to Forum Nokia Open Source event on August 9th organized in Nokia San...
My Tools for Python on S60 / N93 development
Thanks to Jukka’s tips, during last week’s live session, I think I have my tools decisions made. Here are some are the considerations I brought to the process: I expect and hope to have some cross-platform features, so I want my desktop tools...
Live answers: Using Python for easy development of Nokia...
Good news! I was hoping yesterday to arrange a conversation about using Pyton on S60 to start the wine tasting journal. The conversation is arranged, and you’re invited. Mr. PyS60, Jukka Laurila has agreed to discuss this project live on Thursday,...
New OpenC Topic now live
After a bit of technical delay, Open C is now available as a blogging topic. Not that it's prevented us from writing about it, but we've been forced to tag our entries as Symbian C++, or S60. In the spirit of transparency, I should mention that all the entries...
Download Open C SDK -- developing for Nokia just got easier.
You knew it had to be close. With Alesandro, Tommi, Anthony, me twice , and lots of others talking about how Open C for S60 on Symbian would make porting Linux and other open source projects to Nokia S60 devices...
Open C, POSIX, and wheel invention
A couple of weeks ago Anthony talked about PIPS, Symbian’s rendition of POSIX on Symbian OS. As you might have guessed, Nokia was working quite closely with Symbian on this, and today Nokia announced Open C . Open C adds to PIPS by bringing significant...
P.I.P.S Is POSIX on Symbian OS
Symbian has just released P.I.P.S in Beijing, China. P.I.P.S. stands for "P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS". It is a recursive acronym. It reminds me to GNU, which is a recursive acronym for "GNU is Not UNIX". P.I.P.S. - PIPS Is POSIX on Symbian -...
