Release notes

Compatibility Analyser – Version 1.9.0

Released 10th December 2009

Product description

The Compatibility Analyser tool compares a set of files in two different versions of Symbian releases against a predefined Binary Compatibility (BC) criteria, and reports any changes that affect BC. The analysis is done on header files or import libraries of the platform source code.

The Compatibility Analyser tool is integrated to the Carbide.c++ IDE and provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to the tool's core components, BCTools script package. In addition to using the default files that are delivered with the Carbide tool, you can also use core components, for example, from a Web server.

Compatibility reports can be filtered so that they compare the found issues against a knownissues.xml file. This file shows whether or not the same BC problems have occurred before in the Symbian platform.

Both the core components and knownissues.xml files can be retrieved from a Web server to use the latest versions. This ensures that the results of your BC analysis are always up-to-date and do not show, for example, known issues that are already fixed in the platform.

Main features

What's new

Installation notes

System requirements

Basic requirements:

Additional requirements:

Compatibility issues

The tool supports the following file types:

Known issues

Version history

Version 2.0 – Day Month Year
Version 1.8.0 – 14th October 2009
Version 1.7.0 – 26th August 2009
Version 1.6.0 – 9th July 2009
Version 1.5.0 – 29th April 2009
Version 1.4.0 – 23rd February 2009 and Version 1.4.1 – 4th March 2009
  • Feature: Option to save the settings of an analysis into a configuration file (.comptanalyser) and use this file to re-run the analysis. This saves the time of going through the wizard when there are no changes in the configuration.
  • Change: The Compatibility Analyser view has been modified with the following additional fields:
  • Version 1.3.2 – 12th January 2009
    Version 1.3.0 – 19th December 2008 and Version 1.3.1 – 5th January 2009
    Version 1.2.0 – 29th October 2008 and Version 1.2.1 – 4th November 2008
    Version 1.1.0 – 4th September 2008 and Version 1.1.1 – 25th September 2008
    Version 1.0.0 – 29th July 2008 and Version 1.0.1 – 22nd August 2008

    The first version.