Performing a conditional function based on windows OS

Question

I'm wondering on how I could achieve performing a conditional function based on what operating system I'm using, for example,

if ( operatingSystem == Windows7 )
{
   foo()
}
else if ( operatingSystem == WindowsXP )
{
   etc()
}

I am pretty sure predefined macros won't help me with this since you have to choose the OS macro before you compile, I want this program to be flexible and unfortunately preprocessor macros are the only answer I'm getting when I google it. Thank you for your time!

already answered here: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2877295/get-os-in-c-win32-for-all-versions-of-win][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2877295/get-os-in-c-win32-for-all-versions-of-win — dweeves, Sep 17 '12 at 09:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '12 at 09:09

2

You can use GetVersionEx(). Read GetVersionEx function and OSVERSIONINFOEX structure for details on how to interpret the data.

answered Sep 17 '12 at 09:09

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