On 14 August 2015 at 17:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 14 17:08, Václav Haisman wrote: >> On 14 August 2015 at 16:11, Eliot Moss 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. > > cygwin_internal(CW_GETVERSIONINFO) is an API for non-Cygwin tools like > cygcheck, not for general consumption. For a Cygwin executable, better > use uname(2) instead.
Thanks. Uname call's utsname structure is much easier to parse. -- 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
