[Mono-list] Determining the platform at compile and run time

[Richard Torkar]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:41, Jonathan Gilbert wrote:
> At 09:46 AM 29/10/2003 -0800, Jackson Harper jackson-at-ximian.com
> |mono-list subscription| wrote:
> >On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:33, Chris Seaton wrote:
> >> How do I know what OS my program is running on at run time? PlatformID
> >> contains no entry for any systems apart from Windows.
> >
> >http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/DeveloperFaq?PHPSESSID=3De=
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> 73fcad70a585f9bf5bb57ba841
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> This URL does not work for me in Internet Explorer:

Strange, it works for me. Anyway I think this is what Jackson wanted you
to see:


How can I tell dynamically what platform my code is running on?

This is one possible approach, contributed by Aleksey Demakov
(avd@openlinksw.com)

  Type enumType =3D typeof (PlatformID);
  if (Enum.IsDefined (enumType, "Unix"))
  {
    if (~Environment.OSVersion.Platform =3D=3D (PlatformID) Enum.Parse (enu=
mType, "Unix"))
      Console.WriteLine ("Platform: Mono on Unix");
    else
      Console.WriteLine ("Platform: Mono on Win32");
  } else
    Console.WriteLine ("Platform: .NET");

/Richard
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