Problems in Getting Started!!

[talk2sk]

Hi All,

If you have read the miniguide

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3281

and are having problems getting things to work please discuss here, I shall try to answer as much as I can, hopefully others will help too :-)

Cheers

[Flanders]

I had a go at compliling the hello world example with not much luck :cry:

it seems like I need nmake and I dont have it, I believe it comes with VC6?

So do i need VC6 to use the Series60 SDK?


Thanx, Stu

[MaleBuffy]

Yes nmake comes with VC6 but you can also download it from microsoft for free! I dont know if it will work for sure standalone but you could try! If I am not mistaken it is a self-extracting exe file called nmake15.exe or something that will create the original name.exe and other files as well!

[Tsunami_Hiroshima]

Hi all,

I too recently tried going through the motions of creating the HelloWorld SIS file, everything worked (i.e. installation / creating the system files etc) but for some reason the HelloWorld icon didn't appear, so I couldn't run it from the phone.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Tsu

[Tsunami_Hiroshima]

oops, one other thing....

in order for me to make the sis files, I need to edit the file names in the HelloWorld package to show the full path, instead of relational path to the .pkg file.

Getting stuck at the HelloWorld stage of any new language usually sends me packing :P

[MaleBuffy]

Have u tried to power-cycle your phone? If yes are you sure the installation was completed? Have u tried it on the emulator to see if it works there? Give more details if you like...

[Flanders]

I downloaded nmake and still no luck :cry:

looks like i also need link.exe lookin at the errors

has anyone managed to get it to work without VC6 installed???

Thanx, Stu

[Dazler]

Originally Posted by Tsunami_Hiroshima

Hi all,

I too recently tried going through the motions of creating the HelloWorld SIS file, everything worked (i.e. installation / creating the system files etc) but for some reason the HelloWorld icon didn't appear, so I couldn't run it from the phone.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Tsu

find it and launch it yourself in the system/apps dir

[Dazler]

Originally Posted by Tsunami_Hiroshima

oops, one other thing....

in order for me to make the sis files, I need to edit the file names in the HelloWorld package to show the full path, instead of relational path to the .pkg file.

Getting stuck at the HelloWorld stage of any new language usually sends me packing :P

I know the feeling got stuck on HelloWorld 2

[Tsunami_Hiroshima]

Originally Posted by Dazler

find it and launch it yourself in the system/apps dir

Tried that via SeleQ, there were two files in the HelloWorld directory.
When I tried to run them, I got an error saying that no file association existed for the .app extention.

For some reason, in the emulator, I could see the HelloWorld icon and could run it, although there were no menus assigned to the softkeys(I still had "Hello World" text in the center of the screen).

I am currently downloading service pack 5 for visual studio (just noticed a warning message when i was running the "abld makefile" command. Saying that I should be using at least sp3).

Going to mess around with this over the weekend, hopefully. Should get some better results then.

Only problem I see after using all the examples in the SDK help files is that I still won't have a clue how to actually write an app from scratch, MaleBuffy posted a link to a half decent book being released around 24th of this month which I will no doubt get. (there is a special offer if bought with another Symbian book).


Link to MaleBuffy's book tip here:
http://www.allabouter6.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3292

Until then...

[talk2sk]

Hi Flanders,

Just updated the mini guide on the VC6 dependancy,

You will need VC6 if you want to compile for the emulator since it uses the compiler form VC6. If you want to compile directly for the phone then you will be able to do so without vc6 since the gcc compiler for the phone is bundled along with the SDK. Let us know how you go ?

Bye.

[Flanders]

:cry:

I think I will wait and see if I can get hold of VC6, I dont fancy having to install everytime to the phone to test.

I'll have to stick to j2me for now, anyone got any good j2me source code examples?

Stu

[Dazler]

Flanders try OPL instad of J2ME it's faster and requires less memory, at least if you want to program for the 9210, otherwise you'll have to use J2ME for the 7650

[talk2sk]

The J2ME SDK From Nokia should have some useful examples I think..

I dont know much about the SDK, it is around 40MB download. Let us know how you get along with it ..

[Domi]

Flanders,

I think, I've missed something since the forum was shutdown ..., what is exactly your problem ?? I can compile everything from the nokia CD from UiKon to Avkon (series 60) and run them on the devices without any problem (or with a little modification of the project)

Domi.