Re: Checking for OS in gnatstudio project file(.gpr)

[Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@gmail.com>]

On Friday, June 19, 2020 at 10:01:59 AM UTC+2, ldries46 wrote:
> At this point I found within my environment variables on Windows:
> OS=Windows_NT so I created the following in my .gpr file (I have not 
> yest looked in Linux, perhaps I shoud add OS=Linux there)
> 
>     type OS_Kind is
>        ("Windows_NT", "Linux");
>     OS : OS_Kind := external("OS", "Windows_NT");
> 
>     case OS is
>        when "Windows_NT" =>
>           for Object_Dir use "./build";
>           for Exec_Dir   use ".";
>        when "Linux" =>
>           for Object_Dir use "./build";
>           for Exec_Dir   use ".";
>           for Casing     use "mixedcase";
>     end case;
> 
> The problem now is the casing, that seems not to be available on 
> Windows. In Linux it looks like I need it because the standard there is 
> "lowercase" Is there an overall .gpr file that all project use in which 
> I can add or change that ?

Casing of what? Do you e.g. have directories with mixed casing?

It seems that your Object_Dir and Exec_Dir are the same on the two platforms. Do you have file names with mixed case?

Regards,
Mark L