How do distinguish between platforms (Windows/Linux) in console or makefile

Asked Mar 30 '18 at 13:51

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I have a Makefile that is intended to be used both on Linux and Windows. I need to be able to somehow distinguish between platforms to be able to alternate targets for them.

Another possible difficulty could be that this makefile could be run inside Cygwin or Git bash on Windows, but it still should be able to know, that it's on Windows and not break.

How do I do such a thing?

edited Mar 30 '18 at 17:57

Mike Kinghan

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asked Mar 30 '18 at 13:51

Ray P.

use `Makefile-win32`... – iBug Mar 30 '18 at 13:52
I already use GnuWin32 make. – Ray P. Mar 30 '18 at 13:56
uname command should return something different in each context. – Rob Mar 30 '18 at 14:02
On Windows, when I try $(shell uname) it gives this output: process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, uname, ...) failed. – Ray P. Mar 30 '18 at 14:09
Using Cygwin, $(uname) gives `CYGWIN_NT-6.1`. – lit Mar 30 '18 at 15:06
This might help. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/714100/os-detecting-makefile – shawnhcorey Mar 31 '18 at 11:33

How do distinguish between platforms (Windows/Linux) in console or makefile

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