From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: dos/unix defines
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 09:52:54 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> There is no general way to do that.  One solution which I find to work
> reasonably well is to test for COMSPEC, like so:
> 
>         ifdef COMSPEC
>         ... DOS stuff ...
>         else
>         ... Unix stuff ...
>         endif

I use an even simpler method, which is guaranteed to work.  I simply
define a macro for whichever platform is appropriate (MSDOS, LINUX,
WINDOWS, MACINTOSH, SUNOS, etc.) and give it to the makefile/project.
Much easier that way, and it can (obviously) be generalized to any
platform/compiler/runtime combination, because you're doing the work of
making the #defines.

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