[Mono-list] Unable to get environment variable

[Jason Perkins]

On 3/11/07, William Huskey <william.huskey at gmail.com> wrote:
> would this not work
>
>             OperatingSystem os = Environment.OSVersion;
>             Console.WriteLine(os.VersionString);

No, I'm afraid that doesn't work. On MacOS X, os.VersionString returns
"Unix 8.8.2.0". I haven't been able to figure out OSTYPE is coming
back null, so I'm leaning toward attempting to DllImport a system
library and catching the error if it doesn't exist.

Better ideas welcome! And thanks for responding.

Jason



> On 3/8/07, Jason Perkins <starkos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm new to non-MS platforms, so my apologies if this isn't a mono
> > specific question.
> >
> > I've got mono running on my new OS X box. I am trying to add some code
> > to my application to detect the platform. I thought it would be as
> > easy as calling
> Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OSTYPE") and
> > parsing the result, but the call always returns null, even though
> > typing `echo $OSTYPE` at a shell prompt returns `darwin8.0`.
> >
> > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Many thanks!
> >
> > Jason
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