Porting Tutorials

This topic describes how to port some C applications to the Symbian platform.

It uses Hello, ConsoleApp and GUIApp examples . The first two are simple console-based examples. The third is a command-line driven program which has been converted into a standard Symbian application. It also describes typical problems which may be encountered when porting C code to the Symbian platform, including the restriction on writeable data in DLLs. These example codes can be found in directory examples\stdlib\.

NOTE: These examples may not be present on all Symbian platform SDKs.

Some of the code for the second two examples was taken from the FreeBSD source code. For information on FreeBSD, see http://www.freebsd.org.

• Hello World: A minimal console application
  This section describes the steps to build the Hello World project on the emulator.
• Console App: A Simple Console Program
  This section explains the steps to build the ConsoleApp program using the FreeBSD source code.
• GUI App: Porting an Engine for Use in a Symbian Application
  This section describes the steps to port an engine for use in a Symbian application.