Introduction to Capability Management tools

Overview

The Capability Management tool suite is useful to anyone involved in assigning or managing capabilities for Symbian OS ROM images and applications.

The suite is a set of command line tools that allows you to compare capabilities of binaries that have been developed against Symbian OS, with a pre-defined list of capabilities within a standard Symbian OS ROM image. This is to make sure that your applications have been assigned the correct access rights.

The results are shown in an HTML report.

The Capability Management tool suite includes the following three tools:

CapSearch - allows you to list binary files with a specified capability, using the ROM log file as input.
CapCheck - allows you to compare actual capabilities found in a ROM log with a list of expected capabilities for binaries.
CapImportCheck - allows you to check whether the capabilities of a binary listed in your ROM log file are the same as the capabilities of the binaries that may import that particular binary.

The Capability Management tools are installed as part of the Symbian OS Customization or Development Kit and can be found in <EPOCRoot>\epoc32\tools\CapTools.