Hi
I'm relatively new to the symbian world. I would like to know whether there exists any C or C++ interpreter/compiler which can be installed directly on the target device. I have a nokia e70 and would be very pleased to write&debug c/c++ apps on the device itself. I know there are such tools for basic (Mobile Basic) so why not C/C++? - I tried some googling but to no avail
thanks
Darren
No Symbian C++ development tools that run on Symbian devices. They're probably too big (GCC-E, resource compiler & all the other tools, and the devices do not have powerful enough processors).
You could do Python on the device, though:
http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/pythonfors60/index.html
the gnu gcc compiler is only a few mb's big as far as i know, so....
But how much RAM does it consume when running? (Symbian does not supporting paging to disk so the amount of RAM you have is all you get, and depending on the device free RAM after device boot is not much compared to what's on PCs, and on a PC you also can simulate more throgh a paging file.)
And besides the C++ compiler, you need a resource compiler, linker, link libraries, makekeys, makesis, etc.
so then i guess the only way out is to use Putty for symbian and have all the c++ resources set up on some server....