[Updated: v1.4] NLMakesis is a small utilities that improves the way Symbian OS Makesis works by adding two new capabilities for packaging your application with the possibility to have SDK independent pkg file and to process your pkg file using the CPP preprocessor

Symbian SDK switcher is a freeware utility that allow you yo quickly switch from one SDK to another. Once launched, the application displays a system tray icon listing all SDK available on your machine.

At Symbian's request, CodeSourcery has made available an updated version (2005-Q1C) of the Symbian OS GNU tool chain packages. This is a bug-fix only release, including fixes for problems with invoking the tool chain under the CodeWarrior IDE and with using the linker options "-Tdata" and "-Map" simultaneously.

The devices command allows you to specify which Symbian OS device to develop for, and configures the required environment settings according. The command was introduced with Symbian v7.0 SDKs.

On all devices based on Symbian OS v7.0s (Series 60 Developer Platform 2nd Edition, Series 80 Developer Platform 2.0, and Series 90 Developer Platform 2.0) it is possible to save considerable disk space by compressing an application's executable files.

This article describes the plug-in for the Eclipse IDE that I've written which allows to write Symbian programs under Eclipse. It's quite simple (the lack of debugger is probably it's biggest drawback) but definitely nicer than running ABLD commands from the command prompt.

GenBuild is a Symbian tool that allows you to build several programs for several targets using one command.

This article explains the Symbian (E32) executable file format, including the header information and how the executable sections are organized.

Can I develop for the Symbian OS Emulator without buying an IDE? Are there any free tools I can use in order to write Symbian applications for a Symbian SDK without having to buy an IDE? How can I configure my system in order to use these tools?