You can use the Symbian command line interface to build S60 applications and to start an emulator for testing them.
Symbian provides the epoc.exe emulator
executable, which can be launched from the command line. An emulator is a
software application that enables the computer to emulate a hardware. The
emulator does not attempt to precisely model the state of the device being
emulated, but only attempts to reproduce its behavior.
Start the emulator and play around with it to learn about its features.
For more information on the emulator, see Emulator reference.
For more information on how to launch the emulator from Carbide.c++, see To run the application in the emulator.
The Symbian build chain enables building your application for the mobile device from the command line without the need for an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Because an IDE is meant to make software development easier for developers, beginning programmers should concentrate on learning to use the IDE. The IDE uses command line calls in the background to perform particular tasks. It is at times useful to perform the command line calls manually so that you can verify (or better understand) some behavior observed in IDE builds.
Experienced programmers can update the command line interface environment with the latest WINSCW build configuration to build applications for the emulator from the command line. You can use the command line calls to customize the build process. For more information, see Symbian OS build process.
For information on the Symbian command line interface, see Build tools guide and Build tools reference.