Generic OS Services Guide

The Generic OS Services package is a collection of components and libraries that provide generic OS level services to Symbian platform components and applications. The generic OS level services include a plug-in framework (ECom) for defining and using plug-ins, a P.I.P.S. environment for porting POSIX-based applications, and a Zip Compression Library for stream and file compression, and decompression.

This package also includes ported versions of C++ Standard Library (STLport v4) and Standard C++ Library (STLport v5). It is recommended that you use Standard C++ Library (STLport v5) to take advantage of its latest features.

Note: Open C & C++ API reference information and Open C++ examples are not part of Symbian Developer Library. For this information, refer to

S60 5th Edition C++ Developer's Library on Nokia Developer Web site.

Besides the support for these open libraries, it also provides services for task scheduling, creating backup and restore software, handling Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), a MIME Recogniser Framework for recognising data types and a set of application utilities.

Quick Start
Compression Libraries
Generic Open Libraries
Generic Services
GLib
GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, Windows, OS/2, and BeOS.
Low Level Libraries and Frameworks
C++ Standard Library (STLport v4)
C++ Standard Library is a Symbian platform port of STLport v4. It enables applications written using Standard C++ to be ported to Symbian platform.