ngage-toolchain

A C/C++ homebrew toolchain for the Nokia N-Gage.

What is this all about?

This toolchain is the heart of the Nokia N-Gage SDK project.

The project provides a collection of tools, libraries, and documentation that allows to develop homebrew software for the Nokia N-Gage. It includes a C/C++ toolchain, a collection of example applications, and a set of libraries that are compatible with the N-Gage's hardware.

Where do I start?

Clone the toolchain:

git clone https://github.com/ngagesdk/ngage-toolchain.git

Create the environment variable $NGAGESDK and set it to the root-directory of the toolchain.
Important: Since normalizing paths with CMake does not seem to work properly, be sure to use slashes instead of backslashes, e.g. C:/ngage-toolchain.

Once you are done, open the setup directory in Visual Studio and wait until the CMake solution has finished generating. That's it.

Important

The C++ compiler for Symbian S60 is based on Cygwin and requires access to cygwin1.dll. In order for this DLL to be found, the $PATH environment variable must be updated.

The same applies to the C compiler, which, however, requires access to different DLLs.

It should be sufficient to add these two paths to your $PATH environment variable:

%NGAGESDK%\sdk\sdk\6.1\Shared\EPOC32\gcc\bin
%NGAGESDK%\sdk\sdk\6.1\Shared\EPOC32\ngagesdk\bin

Licence and Credits

• This project is licensed under the "The MIT License". See the file LICENSE.md for details.

• The SDK itself is from Nokia and various third-party sources. These components are not subject to the terms of "The MIT License".

• The N-Gage SDK logo by Dan Whelan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

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