This page provides a history of the Open C and Open C++ releases.

Open C/Open C++ 1.7.5

This release is available through Nokia Developer.

Released: August 2010

Platforms: S60 3rd Edition (including all feature packs) and S60 5th Edition

Features:

• Installed Open C/C++ packages now included in a device's backup and restore.
• Numerous bug fixes.
• Signed for S60 devices from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.

Open C/Open C++ 1.6

This release was made available through Nokia Developer.

Released: August 2009

Platforms: S60 3rd Edition (including all feature packs) and S60 5th Edition

Features:

• POSIX signals emulation.
• setdefaultif API to enable the setting of a default IAP/SNAP.
• Use of /dev/null as stdio redirection media.
• eselect API to watch for custom TRequestStatus objects.
• aselect API to invoked a select asynchronously.
• Support for the FIONREAD command on socket ioctls.
• Support for text-mode stdio, available using set_fmode(). This feature closely mirrors the facility in Windows CRT.

Open C/Open C++ 1.5

This release was made available as a beta in conjunction with the Qt for S60 Tower technology preview OpenC-1.5.5b-beta.zip

Released: June 2009

Platforms: S60 3rd Edition (including all feature packs) and S60 5th Edition

Features:

Open C/Open C++ 1.4

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Open C/Open C++ 1.3

Released: May 2008

Platforms: S60 3rd Edition

Features:

• Open C: libc, libm, libpthread, libdl, libz, libcrypt, libssl, libcrypto, glib

• Open C++
  • IOStreams
  • STL
  • Boost

• RGA

Open C 1.2

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Open C 1.1

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Open C 1.0

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P.I.P.S. (P.I.P.S is POSIX on Symbian)

Released: Feb 2007

Features:

• libc – The “C Standard Library” with system APIs mapped to Symbian OS APIs for better performance
• libm – A mathematical library
• libpthread – Implements POSIX-style threading support in terms of the underlying Symbian OS thread support
• libdl – Implements POSIX-style dynamic linking which extends the dynamic loading model of Symbian OS