P.I.P.S. Porting Tutorials

P.I.P.S. porting tutorials act as a guideline document that explains how to create and build POSIX-compliant code on Symbian platform v9.x. The porting tutorials describe how can Symbian developers use the libc, libm,libpthread and libdl libraries when they port POSIX-based applications to the Symbian platform.

• Porting Using P.I.P.S.
  Symbian platform is a typical platform for open source software (OSS) but with the availability of P.I.P.S., developing and porting OSS has become easier and quicker. Issues such as size, and licensing are some of the things that the developer must carefully analyze before porting.
• Intermixing C and C++
  
• Using Visual Studio on Carbide.vs
  Carbide.vs is a set of tools used for Symbian C++ application development using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 IDEs and Symbian SDKs.
• Creating Processes and Threads
  
• Using POSIX Signals
  
• Exporting Global Data from a DLL
  Exporting global data from a DLL to be accessed by either P.I.P.S. or Symbian C++ applications is one of the typical problems that developers encounter.
• Initializing a Library
  Sometimes, a library needs to be initialized before it can provide any services to client of the library. This can be done in several ways.
• String Conversions
  In case the developer is developing applications where P.I.P.S.-based functionality is called from a Symbian/S60 application, the need for conversions between Symbian descriptors and different string types provided by P.I.P.S. is needed.
• Calling Symbian Asynchronous APIs in Applications
  
• Dynamic Link Libraries
  
• Supporting Writable Static Data in DLLs