P.I.P.S. Guide

P.I.P.S. is a recursive acronym standing for P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS.

In order to improve time to market Symbian provides developers with a quality POSIX compliant C environment so they can port Standard C applications to Symbian OS more easily.

This guide is aimed at anyone wanting to port Standard C libraries and Standard C executables to Symbian OS using P.I.P.S.. The guide describes the differences between Symbian OS and other operating systems and explains how to port C libraries to P.I.P.S.; it includes the following sections:

What is P.I.P.S.?

Using P.I.P.S. For Your Applications

Porting Using P.I.P.S.

Important note: in this document the reader will find design information on the underlying structure of P.I.P.S. called the System Call Adaptation Layer (SCAL). Please be aware that APIs in the SCAL are not intended for use by partners and ISVs. It is not a public interface and may only be extended by Symbian.