Symbian Example

There are several Symbian project wizards that allow for quick-starting the development, but they never satisfied me enough. I wanted something simple, yet modifiable and extensible. Existing wizards just didn’t suite the SymbianExample needs. I had to create an own tool and I am glad to share it with everyone.

ExeDlls are the targets for Symbian projects that make the projects compile into EXE for the hardware platform and into a special DLL, that can be launched as an EXE from the WINS emulator.

For S60 3rd edition EXEs can be started from the fully loaded emulator and some system interfaces have been changed. Universal HelloExeDll uses a bit of preprocessor magic and can be compiled both for S60 3rd and 2nd edition. On the 3rd edition the project will be built as an EXE; on the 2nd edition it will be built as a usual ExeDll - as an EXE for hardware and as a DLL for WINS.

ExeDll is a special project target, that makes your project compile into exe for the hardware builds and into dlls for the WINS builds. It allows you for launching your servers from the fully loaded emulator. Unfortunately you cannot easily launch the ExeDll from the emulator. It is not visible in the menu and there are no WINS file browser that could start your program. ExeLauncher is a minimalistic utility that can launch your ExeDlls and Exes from a given path. Application has been built on the S60 SDK 2nd Edition Feature Pack 2. Should work on all the S60 SDKs for the 1st and 2nd editions