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Category: Open C

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 redirects STDOUT to a...

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 system level functions,...

Development Depends on Dependency

It's quite a while since my last post. Although I'm not there, just because of the terrible earth quake happened in SiChuan China, I can't sleep well and concentrate on my codes while people there are suffering. God bless them, hope they could recover with time passes. Actually this...

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. Touching so much...