Open C Road Show, great event

biskero — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:39:17 +0200

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

Here is an Open C Road Show summary:

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!

Alessandro

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