Windows Mobile 2005 Emulator!

[Antonio Linares]

Follow these rules to test Windows Mobile 2005 on the Pocket PC emulator:

1. Download the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK for Pocket PC

2. Extract the SDK to a folder on your hard drive by running "msiexec /a "Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK.msi"".

3. Locate in the installed files "PPC_USA.bin" and copy it to the folder where your actual emulator images are. (The ROM size is 20 Mgs).

4. Run: deviceemulator PPC_USA.bin /skin Pocketpc_2003_skin.xml /memsize 128

Windows Mobile 2005 running:


FiveWin for Pocket PC running on Windows Mobile 2005:


The Windows Mobile 2005 emulator needs more time to load and its slower, but now we can check FWPPC on it too

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Great!

EMG

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

> 29/01/2006 03:18

Antonio, for your health, I think you'd better to sleep at night.

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

Sure, but I was so anxious to test Windows Mobile 2005 that when I found how to extract it from the msi file and run it on the emulator, I could not go to bed

If you run the SDK msi file you will see that Microsoft requires you to have previously installed Visual Studio 2005! (more than 2 GBs) but doing
msiexec /a ...msi then you bypass the msi requirements so there is no need for Visual Studio 2005

We should remember this cool trick for next msi files from Microsoft...

[Jon Munro]

Antonio,
Thanks for your fantastic effort - the new emulator cures the fault of the failing serial port when it would randomly just stop working during a write, even when using C code.
regards

[Antonio Linares]

Jon,

Thanks for your feedback

[Jon Munro]

Antonio,
Fivewin socket functions are OK with WM2005 emulator, but FWPPC TSocket() still seems flaky and gives an internal error - even 'sockcli'. I use Socket Workbench (www.sigmasolutions.com.au) for testing with the emulator cradled with ActiveSync (on XP) using DMA. Its not a problem; just passing on feedback...
hth
regards,

[Antonio Linares]

Jon,

We appreciate your feedback, thanks.

What internal error do you get ?

[Jon Munro]

Antonio,
With PC2003 emulator my application simply displayed 'hb_errinternal' and with WM2005 emulator causes an o/s error report to be created, which I've emailed to you. Hope it helps. However the socket functions are easy to use instead and work perfectly well. Thanks again.
regards,

[Antonio Linares]

Jon,

I have seen the screens. Could you provide a small sample that reproduces the error ? Thanks,

[Jon Munro]

Antonio,
Sorry for the delay. I'll recheck and retest my code with the latest FWPPC and Harbour and let you know...
regards