Developers can download the new Open C SDK Plug-in for S60 to add POSIX, OpenSSL, and other libraries to their S60 development environments. The SDK easily extends the Carbide.c++ IDE, and is compatible with other environments, as well. Open C for S60 on Symbian will make porting Linux and other open source projects to Nokia S60 devices easier than ever. Because Open C is based on popular open-source projects, it offers a fast, flexible, and familiar development environment that is easier to learn than native Symbian C++.
The plug-in SDK includes code snippets that illustrate specific APIs. It also features full sample code to help developers get started with these project types: 3D graphics that use OpenGL ES; event-driven systems that implement finite-state machines; and message-queue management that exposes an API through which other modules can create and close message queues, send and receive messages through the queues, and query the status of created message queues.
