Purpose of the PDT Debug Solutions

The Platform Developer Kit (PDT) provides debug solutions to support Symbian platform application development. These solutions can be used to create tools to support on-target debugging.

PDT provides the following debug solution that help in debugging the Symbian platform applications running on a device:

  • Capturing the process state using the Process Core Dump Subsystem when the system fails. This information can be used by the debugging tools to view and analyse why the system failed. The subsystem can also provide a snapshot of the processes and threads for the entire system.

The PDT debug solution includes:

  • C++ source code and binaries for Symbian platform agents and frameworks

  • Specifications of all public file formats and protocols

  • Validation tests and reference components

  • Documentation that guides tools vendors in integrating the PDT debug solutions into their products.