Lucian Tomuta's Forum Nokia Blog - S60 SDK and tools on Windows Vista - a success story

Re: s60 2nd Ed Fp2 Vs S60 3rd Ed FP any

2008-10-13T13:21:35Z

Hi Jim,

good question for the SDK team. I'll pass it on.

s60 2nd Ed Fp2 Vs S60 3rd Ed FP any

2008-10-13T12:09:49Z

Why did the sound on the emulator change in 3rd Edition and more importantly who chose to select Dolby 5 stereo and then could not suppport the driver block information.

Put simply we need a way of turning OFF MultiMedia Sound and why, NO model Phone will support this level, and in case you did not realise stereo 192kb can only be delivered by bluetooth.

Why did the driver select code 3 Dolby 5 and not select 0 standard PC sound. Initially I thought this was just Desktop PC, but this fails on my humble Vista laptop. We need a new driver or the same sound driver as 2nd Edition.
Jim

2008-09-23T08:15:17Z

You need ActivePerl by ActiveState, but to know which version of it (the latest version will not work) you need to read SDK's release notes.

The download page is http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.6/

2008-09-23T03:54:45Z

Hallo guys Can you tell me what is perl
his daffination and how can Get it ?
please help I'm gettig crazy with search enginssss

S60 SDK and tools on Windows Vista - a success story

2008-07-05T17:35:59Z

Hello Lucian Tomuta,

Thank you for your response. I could successfully install and compile S60 2nd Edition FP3 on Windows Vista with CW 3.1 IDE.

The info in the below Wiki was also useful.

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Moving_to_Windows_Vista

Cheers,
Uday.

2008-07-04T16:36:21Z

Also, try running the command line tools, do they work? It could also help if you would have a look at the "virtual store" concept introduced by Vista, I've found it to be interfering with my attempts to customize the SDK.

2008-07-04T16:33:29Z

Why CodeWarrior? Where can one still find it for download?

I have not tried such thing, in fact I don't know if I can still find it somewhere for a test round, but one thing that I would do it to make sure that the application does not get installed in its default location, in Program Files. Instead send the installation to e.g. C:\Apps\CodeWarrior

I do not remember which installer version I used for Active Perl but probably the MSI version. But I guess if you can run perl at the command prompt, (e.g. call "perl -v") all is fine.

CodeWarrior is however an old product, check the release notes and see what are its requirements regarding the Active Perl version. If possible stick to that version so that you avoid further problems.

I think that the makmake type of problems reported by CodeWarrior were indeed related to Perl but you can easily verify this by doing some searches on the Discussion Boards.

Hope this helps!

S60 2nd Edition FP3

2008-07-04T04:17:07Z

Hello Lucian Tomuta,

I am trying install S60 2nd Edition FP3 in Windows Vista(tm) business OS.

I have installed Active Perl 5.6.1 build 638 using the Installer bat file ( NOT msiexec), then j2re-1_4_2_17-windows-i586-p and then SDK.(run as admin)

For IDE installed trial version of CodeWarrior personal edition.(run as admin).

When I try to compile the hello world program, I get "Failed to run makmake. System error: System cann't find the specified file". "makmake file failed to run".
This message comes from SymbianMMSImporter DLL of codewarrior.

Verified that EPOC32\Tools is in the path set in system variables.

Appreciate any pointers in this direction?

thank you.

-Uday.

Finally made it!!!

2008-06-18T21:33:39Z

Finally i made it worked for GCCE UREL by getting rid of "BAREWORD ....." error.
Check it under "Latest Updates" on
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Moving_to_Windows_Vista

Kiran.

2008-06-16T16:42:30Z

You need a dedicated compiler when building for the actual device. Since Symbian OS 9.x the supported compilers are RVCT and GCCE, the later shipped with the SDK (see %EPOCROOT%Epoc32\tools\distrib\arm-none-symbianelf-2005-q1c.exe).

So the answer is Yes, you need to install this compiler unless you have the RVCT.

More information in SDK's release notes.

S60 SDK & tools on Windows Vista- Having Problems

2008-06-16T16:06:19Z

Where can I find GCCE? Is it necessary to install it for S60?

2008-06-16T07:22:25Z

I suggest that you make a VMware (or the likes) image of your current WinXP installation just in case.

Btw, will Windows 7 have more features than Windows 3.1.1 but less than Windows 95? ;)

2008-06-16T04:40:24Z

Hopping update will come before the market is flooded with Windows 7.

Soon

2008-06-15T22:09:30Z

Support for Vista will be provided in the [near] future but one should not expect that old SDKs releases (and one should count the SDK I used as old) will be touched in order to add Vista support.

So I am afraid one cannot completely ignore the need for tweaks. However, as this post demonstrates (I hope) there is really no need for major hacks, just a bit of understanding of the host OS and its limitations (some call them improvements) ;)

When?

2008-06-15T21:23:56Z

Lucian, as you may see that Windows Vista comes everywhere nowadays. Can it be possible that we have everything "one shot setup" with SDK or Carbide.c++ without doing any such tweaks?