os.host.md 685 B

Identify the currently executing operating system.

id = os.host()

Parameters

None.

Return Value

An operating system identifier; see system() for a complete list of identifiers.

Note that this function returns the OS that Premake is currently running on, which is not necessarily the same as the OS that Premake is generating files for. If you are running on Mac OS X and generating Visual Studio project files, the identifier is "macosx".

Availability

Premake 5.0.0 alpha 12 or later.

Examples

if os.host() == "windows" then
   -- do something Windows-specific
end

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