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I need to figure out the operating system my program is running on during runtime. I'm using Qt 4.8.1, MinGW. My program shall run a command-line QProcess on Windows or Linux. Now I need a kind of ...

I need my code to do different things based on the operating system on which it gets compiled. I'm looking for something like this: #ifdef OSisWindows // do Windows-specific stuff #else // do Unix-...

I want to run some c++ code on Linux and Windows. There are some pieces of code that I want to include only for one operating system and not the other. Is there a standard #ifdef that once can use? ...

What is the most reliable way to find out CPU architecture when compiling C or C++ code? As far as I can tell, different compilers have their own set of non-standard preprocessor definitions (_M_X86 ...

I would like to detect whether the OS I'm compiling on is Windows. Is there a simple macro I can check to verify that?

I am using mingw32-make to compile a project to Windows, which depends on a project called libevent2. I keep receiving this error - util.h:69:25: fatal error: sys/socket.h: No such file or directory ...

How might I write a single header file that defines an interface and use a separate source files to write platform-specific code? For example: video.h video_windows.c video_linux.c video_osx.c

I want to use a RAW Socket in Visual C++. I saw a function on Linux which is int out = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL)); Using this code in linux we can do that, but how to use RAW SOCKET ...

So i'd like to build my application to be Platform Independent such that it can run on Windows, OSX, Linux etc. For example one of the main "parts" that is different across the platforms is a Window. ...

I'm looking for a way for basic management of processes in a cross platform way in C++, but I can't use external libraries (like boost::process). The scenario is this - i'm calling a child process ...

I have just been using the #define to change my values ex: #include <iostream> #include <string> #define Changed_num 100 using namespace std; int main () { ...

I'm currently trying to get some C code that I originally wrote for linux (gcc) to build on a win32 box. The MSVC compiler is giving me warnings for all my printf and scanf usage suggesting I should ...

Dear All I have a small Fortran program containing preprocessor macro. Below is a minimal example. On mac os x, it works well but when I compile it on windows 7 (64-bit) it always prints unknown ...

Recently, I was learning about networking in C++ and I found boost.asio which is a cross platform library, and then I got a thought about how this library is a cross platform since Windows provides ...

Here is a snapshot of a function that I am porting to my Windows machine from here using Visual Studio. bool MinidumpFileWriter::Open(const char *path) { assert(file_ == -1); #if __linux__ file_ =...