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Category: Symbian C++

A Generic Makefile build script for Symbian

In the past days, I have made a build scripts which utilizes a couple of files to build a S60 project in a faster and simpler way. Gnu Make is the main actor in this solution, and this is inspired by the Mozilla project. The main feature of the building is that its much faster than Carbide.c++...

Batch testing in Symbian C++

Hello folks, it's really a long time since my last post. Because of the busy schedule of my own company's project, I'm actually away from the Mozilla platform porting effort for a while. So it's a bit embarrased to carry out fresh experiences to share with you at this moment. However I will...

Finishing the immigration to GNU make

During last couple of weeks, I made the immigration of building Mozilla NSPR component with Carbide.C++ (still based on makemake and friends Perl scripts) to GNU make and autoconf friends. Here I will share some points I learned in this process. First of all, if your open source...

Build Symbian C++ project with GNU make/autoconf

Everyone who develops native Symbian C++ application knows that we use BLD.INF and *.MMP files to define a project. This is used since the very ancient Nokia 9200 SDK. The reason that Symbian uses this approach is quite similar with the reason Symbian made other unique features : because...

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,...

Using MACRO in MMP

In Symbian C++ development, MMP file is used to define a project. For large or complex project, often it is needed to gather some switches in a place act as configuration file, so different target could be made by changing configurations while the rest project file stay untouched. With help of...

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...

Porting Mozilla onto Symbian OS

Greetings Everybody! I have been a Forum Nokia Champion for over 1.5 years. Currently my major technology profession is developing native Symbian OS C++ applications mainly on S60, also I know some Python(PyS60), J2ME and Windows Mobile. Since last month I started concentrate my focus onto...

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