[fpc-pascal]Conditional compilation ELSE-IF?
Michalis Kamburelis
michalis at camelot.homedns.org
Thu Apr 8 15:49:03 CEST 2004
Alan Mead wrote:
> I have the following code in a function:
>
> {$IFDEF LINUX}
> Slash := '/';
> {$ENDIF}
> {$IFDEF WIN32}
> Slash := '\';
> {$ENDIF}
>
> Obviously, FPC supports many other platforms. Is there a better way
> to handle this?
Use DirectorySeparator constant from System unit or PathDelim from
SysUtils unit. PathDelim is also Delphi-compatible.
> Also, will this work if I ever cross-compile?
Those are just constants defined in some units. So they will always
correspond to the target OS you are compiling to. So everything will
work when you cross-compile.
> Is
> there a way to detect this at run-time rather than compile time?
>
> -Alan
>
Maybe I don't understand this question, but there's just no need to
detect value for DirectorySeparator at run-time when this is already
known at compile-time for all OSes.
Michalis.
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