Development options for P800?

weder · 03 Jun 2003, 07:26

Hi,

I was wondering, if any developers are reading this list.

What are you developing on? Is the Metroworks Codewarrior IDE for Symbian OS together with UIQ SDK and the SE P800 emulator really the only set that works?

I'm looking for other, cheaper options, but it doesn't look to good.
Are there no eclipse emulator / development plug-ins? : 😃

Thanks for you infos
Andreas

cmatthee · 03 Jun 2003, 08:48

If you want to use the emulator and the debugging environment, then CodeWarrior is the only way to go.

The alternative is to compile the application directly for the phone (skipping the emulator part), download to phone and do all your testing there. This means that the only debugging available will be messages on the screen, or using the serial port.

weder · 03 Jun 2003, 12:50

Thanks for your info.

I see. So if I don't use the debugging environment and emulator, how do I then compile for the P800? Can I just e.g install Eclipse and the UIQ SDK (which is free)? Does the latter one contain a compiler?

cmatthee · 03 Jun 2003, 13:56

The sdk contains gcc that is used to cross-compile your code from Windows to Symbian.

I suggest you read the following thread in the C++ forum.
Short tutorial on how to compile P800 C++ apps using GCC

To quote sjmurdoch
[quote="sjmurdoch"]I had a fair bit of difficulty compiling the example applications for UIQ without using CodeWarrior, so I have put together a webpage describing how I compiled one of the examples using GCC, drawing together bits of information I have found from documentation, forums and my own experimentation. Hopefully this will be of help to people like me starting programming the P800 and possibly for other Symbian devices too.

I do not have much experience of Symbian OS so there may be mistakes and omissions in the description but if you have any suggestions, corrections or just general comments then please email me at [email protected] or post a reply on this thread.

The tutorial can be found at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/projects/symbian/
[/quote]

I suggest you go to the web site and read it. Should you have any questions, ask it in the thread in the C++ forum.