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Open C Road Show, great event

biskero | 21 March, 2007 01:39

Last Friday I attended the Open C road show at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge.


Here is an Open C Road Show summary:

  • Couple of new devices should be announced at CTIA
  • Flash Lite on every S60 3rd Ed and S40 3rd (FP1) Ed onward

Open C is working in progress and supports a subset of C functions which are “mobile friendly”

  • S60 3rd Ed FP2 supports Open C
  • S60 3rd Ed FP1 supports Open C as plug-in, so you can install a .sis package containing the Open C libraries. You can also redistribute (.sis 800k) and package the plugin into your own .sis

Limitations:

  • Open C does not integrate with the phone messaging systems such as SMS, Bluetooth, location etc.
  • No support for signal, fork and exec
  • and others limitations are included into the documentation

Why this is cool?

  • Because you can write C applications which are portable across platform based on standard C.
  • For example: Oracle ported Berkeley DB from Linux to S60. TIM ported their SIP user agent to S60.
  • I envision using Open C to write libraries for Flash Lite.
I won a Nokia N80!! Another reason on why is cool!
Open C

Alessandro

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