Palm OS programming with GCC
The prc-tools package is a collection of tools supporting C
and C++ programming for Palm OS.
It consists of:
- the GNU
Compiler Collection,
assembler, linker,
and symbolic debugger;
- modifications to these generic tools to support functionality peculiar
to Palm OS;
- tools for dealing with
.prc files, Palm OS's version of
executable applications;
- conveniently packaged documentation for all of the above.
The current release,
prc-tools 2.3, was released on 2003-09-18.
Documentation
Samples and useful tools
The sample code collection available via the
downloads
page contains some moderately non-trivial applications as well as simple
demonstrations of how to build more advanced projects such as applications with
multiple code sections, system and GLib shared libraries, and HackMaster hacks.
One of these samples, ErrorCodes, is a useful tool for decoding the
error codes returned by Palm OS API functions. There is
also an explanation of error codes and an online
error decoder.
The Finger and Puzzle examples in recent Palm OS SDKs build
out of the box with prc-tools, and most of the others can be converted easily.
Some Palm OS licensees also provide samples usable with prc-tools in their
SDKs.
If you'd like to help maintain prc-tools, please drop us a line on the
mailing list that you can find via our
SourceForge project
page.