Hello list,

I have a project to develop app also for cellphones, and one of the environment will be Symbian (also iOS and Android). For using it, I need to better understand the status of the SymbianOS support using FPC.
I remember that there was work to make it work, but I do not understand it's status.
I could only find this information: http://wiki.freepascal.org/SymbianOS . It did not changed since 2007.

Thanks,
Ido

There is no single SymbianOS, rather there are various platforms of SymbianOS which have different APIs and different build environments and also they change radically between versions.

I worked on adding support for SymbianOS UIQ 2 and 3, but that UIQ platform was horrible, with the worse build system that I have ever seen. Now UIQ is dead. The only surviving SymbianOS platform is S60, and even this one is destined to die out in aprox. 3 years. Nokia is the last manufacturer still launching Symbian phones, and it is commited to drop the platform.

I have no idea about how S60 works. In short I'd say that nearly nothing is ready in the Symbian port for S60. I most worked on trying to hack around that horrible Symbian build mess, but I doubt that any of that work applies to the latest S60 because they change a lot between versions.

Currently dead and I doubt that it will be ever updated because the end of Symbian is a fact.