[PD-dev] porting PDa to Symbian

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Feb 5 15:35:44 CET 2007



That's a good step, hopefully that version is common.  As for  
pthreads, that's not needed for Pd core, except for [readsf~] AFAIK.

.hc

On Feb 4, 2007, at 10:16 PM, Josh Steiner wrote:

> hm... maybe?
>
> "Symbian has announced PIPS (PIPS Is POSIX on Symbian) which may  
> increase the number of Open Source projects written for Symbian 9.1."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian
>
> what version do most phones run?
>
> -josh
>
>
> Chris McCormick wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:05:48PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My bro and I were looking into porting PDa to PalmOS, shouldn't  
>>> be  too hard thanks to Günter's PDa.  That got me thinking, it  
>>> would be  nice to port PDa to Symbian also.  Then you could write  
>>> apps in Pd  that run natively on mobile phones!  The GUI stuff  
>>> doesn't have to  run there, that would require porting Tcl/Tk.   
>>> But it should be able  to load a .pd file and run it, and do  
>>> sound output, and maybe other  things
>>>
>>> Anyone know much about Symbian?  It sounds like it might not be  
>>> too  easy since it's got a lot of specialized APIs to deal with  
>>> memory and  power saving.
>>>
>>
>> When porting PDa, some of the sticky points are being able to dlopen
>> and use pthreads. Is Symbian OS POSIX compliant, or even remotely  
>> Unix
>> like? If not I'd say it's going to be a pretty long uphill  
>> struggle to
>> get it ported (but not impossible).
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
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