Developer tools
In addition to what is shipped in Symbian OS SDKs, an assortment of useful tools and SDK add-ons exist that developers can make use of. Note that these tools are not officially supported by Symbian, but we welcome comments and useful feedback for further improvements posted to our forums.
Our tools section is divided up into three distinct categories.
Critical tools
Tools that are the bare essentials for a developer .
- Carbide.c++
- GCC for Symbian
- Symbian Certificate Manager
- Symbian DevCert Request
- Symbian Makesis
- Symbian UnSIS Utility
Recommended tools
High-quality tools that we believe will have a significant impact on the productivity of a large number of Symbian developers and improve the software they produce.
- Bullseye Coverage
- Coverity Prevent
- Klocwork Enterprise Developer Suite
- SysOpen Digia EUnit Pro 5
- Publisher ID export tool
Supported tools
Quality tools that we believe will have an impact on a reasonable number of Symbian developers.
- Symbian AnalyseRemoteHeap
- Symbian AnalyseHeap Utility
- Symbian D_EXC Logging Utility
- Symbian HookLogger
- Symbian WinTap
- Symbian Cryptography APIs
- Penrillian Symbian OS Unit
- Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
- VTT Agia
- Symbian C++ Template Source Generators
- Symbian DepTool
Unsupported development tools
To use or contribute unsupported development tools, visit the Wiki Extra.
FAQs
Here you can find the answers to the most frequently asked developer questions, together with other useful tech tips.More