symbian development

[Pekka Riikonen]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Alex Pavlovic wrote:

: I was curious as to what the current status on working with SILC toolkit 
: under Symbian 9.X S60 ? In particular we are looking to build SILC 
: application targeting Nokia E61 device.
: 
The status is that the SILC Toolkit 1.1 has been tested on emulator, but 
not on device as I didn't have any S60 devices at the time I was doing the 
support for it.  I created a simple SILC client for Symbian which connects 
to SILC network, joins a channel and sends message to the channel.  This 
test naturally tested SILC protocol specific parts and also socket stream 
API, network routines, SILC scheduler and threads.

For Symbian specific issues in the Toolkit see:

http://silcnet.org/docs/toolkit/platforms.html#symbian

You should be aware of the Toolkit split that is currently happening 
(version 1.2).  The SILC Toolkit, which contains the protocol libraries, 
runtime and crypto library and many other libraries is going to splitted 
in three parts: SILC Runtime Toolkit, SILC Crypto Toolkit and the old SILC 
Toolkit containing the protocol specific parts.

All of these Toolkits are going to work on Unix/Linux, Windows and Symbian 
OS.  Beta version of the new Runtime Toolkit should come out this month, 
maybe next week already.  The Runtime Toolkit is a generic runtime, not 
directly related to SILC protocol in anyway.  However, all SILC software 
is going to depend on it.

: Also I would like to use this opportunity to say that at this time we 
: are also offering to sponsor a person who would help us in such 
: development effort. The code would be contributed to the open source 
: community. If there are any intrested parties, please contact me 
: directly.
: 
This is good to hear.  I hope you'll find a person who can dedicate their 
time for this.  The new Runtime is going to need attention on Symbian OS.  
I still haven't had time to even compile it for Symbian not to mention 
test it.  Some of the new APIs defined in the Runtime haven't been 
implemented for Symbian yet.

	Pekka
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 Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
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