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Detecting what OS you are running...

Hi,

I am writing an ANT config script that is to be used on multiple platforms 
(Windows XP, Mac, Fedora) and I have a target that I want to run a certain 
way for Windows XP and another way for other OS's.

Is there a way to make a target run only for a given OS?

thanks,
joe




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Re: Detecting what OS you are running...

Posted by Tommy Nordgren <to...@chello.se>.
On 24 feb 2006, at 00.00, JG wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing an ANT config script that is to be used on multiple  
> platforms
> (Windows XP, Mac, Fedora) and I have a target that I want to run a  
> certain
> way for Windows XP and another way for other OS's.
>
> Is there a way to make a target run only for a given OS?
>
> thanks,
> joe
>

<condition property="isDarwin">
	<equals arg1="Mac OS X" arg2="${os.name}" />
</condition>

<target name="darwinTarget" if="isDarwin">
...
</target>

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Re: Detecting what OS you are running...

Posted by "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <ra...@yahoo.com>.
Hello,

here are some hints.
1) You can use os.name property to find the OS you are
running on.
2) If you want to execute a native OS command only on
the OS that supports it you can use <exec> task with
os attribute. See [1] for more details.
3) If you want to run different targets depending on
the os you can use <condition> with nested <os>
element [2]:

<condition property="isWindows">
  <os family="windows"/>
</condition>

<condition property="isUnix">
  <os family="unix"/>
</condition>

<target name="execute"
  depends="executeUnix,executeWindows"/>

<target name="executeUnix" if="isUnix">
  <!-- Do Unix stuff -->
</target>

<target name="executeWindows" if="isWindows">
  <!-- Do Windows stuff -->
</target>

Regards
Ivan

[1]http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html
[2]http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/conditions.html

--- JG <z2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am writing an ANT config script that is to be used
> on multiple platforms 
> (Windows XP, Mac, Fedora) and I have a target that I
> want to run a certain 
> way for Windows XP and another way for other OS's.
> 
> Is there a way to make a target run only for a given
> OS?
> 
> thanks,
> joe
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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