The various options you can use are summarized in Table 1-1 when developing a Series 60 project. Symbian, Nokia and Development Tools Manufacturer Borland, Metrowerks are offering more choices. However, it seems like Microsoft development tools, although it is currently feasible and widely used, in the foreseeable future cannot be supported.
There are currently some payable differences between the various IDEs of Microsoft, Borland and Metrowerks. The enhancement of the latter two development environments is underway. EMCC Software Co., Ltd. uses all three of the three vendors as the foundation of their own development activities. We also use command line tools every day - not because of our origin, but because we can only do this. This is the basic operation of establishing a program and an automated overnight compilation process for the target device. C Builderx and CodeWarrior IDE can now be used to create programs for target devices - but not all basic setup operations are supported by all IDE.
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