Anyone who has been developing for Symbian will well know of the constraint of having to use MS Windows to do the development on. Windows is the only ‘supported’ platform even though much of the tool chain is based on open source components easily compiled to Linux and OS X. There are workarounds, such as the efforts of Martin Storsjö here, which is how we currently do it in our offices, as we predominantly use Mac’s and Linux machines for development.

With Nokia open-sourcing Symbian, I for one have been hoping for some effort towards making the SDK tool-chain cross-platform.
The Symbian Foundation have been releasing various code and initiatives, but as yet there is no mention of any work towards making the SDK tool-chain truly cross-platform. Lets just hope at some point this happens though, because as good as Martin’s work is, its not ideal and is always playing catch-up to Symbian releases.