Saturday, March 13, 2004

Simon Woodside recently got the Symbian SDK for Series 60 phone working under Linux. He followed the same install process I did, the Symbian 6.1 SDK on Linux instructions. I didn't know about Chris Davies' utility for unpacking the Windows SDK under Linux though. I had to install it under Windows, tar it up, and cp it to the Linux machine which was a bit painful. It would be nice if Nokia had an 'exploded' version of the SDK rather than the Windows Installer only version. 1:48:21 PM

Performing a variation of the 'Symbian SDK on Linux' I've been able to get the Series 60 SDK mostly working natively on the Zaurus handheld. Compiling GCC on the Zaurus took a bit of time though! This allows me to compile and build Symbian applications for the phone and transfer them to it via infrared all via the PDA. Unfortunately there is one step not quite working. Some of the utilities from the SDK require Wine to run. I've been able to get all but one to compile and work correctly under Linux instead using the source supplied by Symbian. The one that doesn't quite work is 'rcomp'. It runs fine but doesn't generate unicode resource files which are required by Series 60. If I compile the resource files on my desktop using Wine and copy it to the Zaurus then everything works fine from then on. Hopefully I'll be able to work around this. 1:36:52 PM

OpenOBEX compiled for the Zaurus running the pdaxrom is available at openobex_1.0.1_arm.ipk. This includes the irobex_palm3 tool for transfering files between a cellphone and the Zaurus. I didn't compile bluetooth support in, only infrared, as I don't have bluetooth installed, and don't have the bluetooth development libraries. Donations of a Zaurus compatible bluetooth card would be gratefully accepted. 1:30:29 PM