hello, am in development serial port based application which should run on both POSIX and Windows based OS, at a first step i need to find the OS and then i will use relevant OS API to work with the serial port,so can any one suggest me how to find the OS running in C.
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Serial port?Originally posted by saranjegan
Are those the small blue ports your monitor is connected to? -
No they are the ports that are being replaced by USB, most computers used to have 2 of them but today normally they only have 1. Generally they use the RS232 protocol and can be used for serial communication to a large number of devices.Originally posted by Firecore
saranjegan presumably you aren't actually proposing to run the same image on both machines, you are just trying to build a portable program? You should find some compiler symbols that enable you to distinguish which platform you are compiling for.
For instance the MSVC compiler defines the symbol _MSC_VER to its version number, presence of this symbol indicates use of the MSVC compiler and therefore a Windows platform as the target.
Check you compiler documentation for the symbols it defines.Comment
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