Thursday, 10 May 2007

STLport coming tomorrow for both S60 and UIQ!

The first release of STLport for Symbian OS is ready, and the big news is... It works on UIQ 3.0 too! The only practical difference is the standard C library, which is Symbian PIPS on UIQ and Nokia's OpenC plugin on S60. These two libraries are actually very similar and have some parts in common, but whereas OpenC includes a "stdio server" for displaying and/or redirecting standard streams, PIPS apparently doesn't have such feature. This means that C-style console applications based on PIPS can't display messages through functions like printf(). Initially, this limitation was an issue because I couldn't run the STLport unit test program to test the library on the UIQ emulator or on the device (I've bought an used M600i phone from eBay), but I solved it by writing a simple shell application that launches the STLport test programs and captures their output.

So, everything is in place. There is a good chance that I'll be able to make the release available for download by tomorrow night.

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