Determine platform with ANT

[Cory Aitchison]

I cannot find a way to determine the platform on which my ANT script
is running (i.e., Linux, Windows, etc.). Does anyone know if there is
a way to do this or am I stuck writing my own custom task?

Regards,

Cory

 

[Rob Shepherd]

I cannot find a way to determine the platform on which my ANT script
is running (i.e., Linux, Windows, etc.). Does anyone know if there is
a way to do this or am I stuck writing my own custom task?

Regards,

Cory

]
you have access to system (JVM set) properties "os.name" and "os.arch" through build in properties

eg ${os.name}

see http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html#built-in-props

hth

Rob

 

[Fred L. Kleinschmidt]

I cannot find a way to determine the platform on which my ANT script
is running (i.e., Linux, Windows, etc.). Does anyone know if there is
a way to do this or am I stuck writing my own custom task?

Regards,

Cory

What's this got to do with java?

 

[Oscar kind]

I cannot find a way to determine the platform on which my ANT script
is running (i.e., Linux, Windows, etc.). Does anyone know if there is
a way to do this or am I stuck writing my own custom task?

Ant has build-in properties. See the documentation under "Using Ant" at
http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

The properties you want are:
os.name
os.arch
os.version

 

[Cory Aitchison]

Ant has build-in properties. See the documentation under "Using Ant" at
http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html

The properties you want are:
os.name
os.arch
os.version

Thank you all. I should have thought of the properties.

CA

 

[Tony Morris]

What's this got to do with java?

Ant is the de facto standard build tool for Java.
Perhaps more relevant in com.lang.java.softwaretools.

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

Ant is the de facto standard build tool for Java.

And of course written in Java.