On 14 August 2015 at 16:11, Eliot Moss <m...@cs.umass.edu> wrote: > On 8/14/2015 9:56 AM, Václav Haisman wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> I am trying to find out Cygwin version at run time. >> >> I have noticed that there is `cygwin_internal (CW_GETVERSIONINFO)` API >> for this. However, it seems that the `cygwin_version_info` structure >> this call is supposed to fill in is not publicly available and is only >> declared internally in `winsup/cygwin/cygwin_version.h`. >> >> Am I right that my only option is either to copy the internal >> declaration of the structure or to use `/proc/version` and parse the >> version string out of that? > > > There's uname, whose options allow getting various parts of what > /proc/version gives you. uname is also somewhat portable across > different flavors of linux ...
Never mind, I have figured it out. The `cygwin_internal (CW_GETVERSIONINFO)` actually returns a pointer to string which can be parsed reliably. I have used it. -- VH -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
