Symbian Example

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.

The 3rd edition of Nokia's S60 platform is all cool and new, but there are a lot of older devices you would still like to support.

The introduction of platform security in the 3rd edition changed the internals of the system a lot. However, from the point of view of the regular application programmer, changes are not that big and are mostly related to the configuration-like issues. We have to rewrite the MMP file, declare couple of things differently, use different type of icons, etc. - a lot of small things that you just have to carefully do once. As the end result of these small differences you'll have two projects with a bit different structure, a bit different set of files and minor changes in the application code.