On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:01:04PM -0500, Lee Jenkins wrote: > Dumb question: > > What is the best way to determine the OS platform at runtime?
That depends what you expect. OS and architecture are mostly compiletime. FPC/Lazarus mostly busies itself with a very course "os-architecture" combination, but doesn't care much about versions and variants (e.g. win9x and winNT are both "win32") IOW {$ifdef linux} will return "linux" for a Linux binary, even when it is running on FreeBSD. The opposite would probably also be true if Linux had a FreeBSD emulation mode. This information can be retrieved in String form using the {$I } directive, as documented in the FPC documentation: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu38.html#x45-430001.1.38 If you want more detailed information, probably you need to go OS specific. However the unices have a call for this, fpuname: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpuname.html which makes it at least semi-generic. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus