I want to port VLC Player to Symbian

[MrKenkadze27]

There is no major player in Symbian Belle platform. Symbian is abandon so nobody will bother to port it, so I wanna port it for my self. I was wondering how exactly, source code is meant to be build on Linux, while there is no Symbian Belle SDK on Linux. I might use QtSDK but It seems challenging to import it in Qt Creator. Anyway how should I pull it off? Any suggestions?

I have worked on an app with Qt creator before but I always build them like it should be with Qt creator, but I never imported a project that wasn't made with ether Carbide C++ or Qt creator. Also I do have Linux system on my laptop (Dual-Boot) but I am not knowledgeable with the terminal much.

Any suggestion on how to import? Maybe use Cygwin on Windows?

I might make the build public if VLC TOS allows it.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Some people tried and failed before. As an OS, Symbian is just too archaic, and the porting effort is too big. That the platform is officially abandonned only makes matters worse.

Seriously, forget it.

[MrKenkadze27]

I still wanna try. I mean VLC team doesn't do it and I really need it. I just wanna import it to QtSDK or Carbide C++ and I'll do the rest, probably...

[MrKenkadze27]

*bump*
I'm still trying to port it. I found a Symbian folder in sources. Still looking for a way to import easily.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Come on IRC, and start compiling libvlccore. Then, we'll see about outputting video and audio.

It's not impossible, but it is a daunting task.