Bug 25899

Summary:	Symbian version of Poppler
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Fran <franjb68>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	other
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Description Fran 2010-01-05 01:29:44 UTC

As you know, Nokia has released Qt 4.6, that includes support for mobile platforms as Symbian and Maemo 6. (http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/nokia-releases-qt-4.6)

I admit I don't know much about Poppler, so I really don't know if that eases the portability of Poppler to Symbian.

That would allow the creation of GPL Acrobat readers in that platform, that is very extended in Europe...

Is that as simple as adding some compiler options or would it take a lot of effort?

Thanks in advance,
Francisco

Comment 1 Brad Hards 2010-01-05 01:50:59 UTC

I'm not aware of anyone that has tried it.

The biggest issue I see is that the current Symbian kits seem to require a Windows machine as host. Most poppler developers seem to avoid Windows.

Comment 2 Fran 2010-01-05 04:26:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> The biggest issue I see is that the current Symbian kits seem to require a
> Windows machine as host. Most poppler developers seem to avoid Windows.
> 

You're right with the Symbian kits. 

The new Qt SDK includes a crossplatform framework for Windows, Linux and Mac.

I don't know if that would be enough or there are other requirements...

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2010-01-05 11:37:56 UTC

I tried it a bit ago, mostly it compiles or without much changes needed, i remember the thing that made me not do it was that i couldn't file a precompiled freetype and didn't had the mood to compile freetype by myself. Fontconfig is probably going to be a problem too.

Comment 4 Fran 2010-01-05 14:10:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I tried it a bit ago, mostly it compiles or without much changes needed, i
> remember the thing that made me not do it was that i couldn't file a
> precompiled freetype and didn't had the mood to compile freetype by myself.
> Fontconfig is probably going to be a problem too.
> 

I've found the 'Cairo for Symbian' project. (http://code.google.com/p/cairo-for-symbian/)

From their home page: "Libraries used in this project i.e. expat, libpng, pixman, freetype, fontconfig and cairo are now compiled as DLLs for WINSCW, GCCE and ARMv5 build."

Maybe that could help?

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2010-01-05 14:23:27 UTC

Any kind of help is welcome

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