Hi,
I was looking for a way to get the OS name and architecture in pure lua, without depending on other modules. I could not find anything satisfactory so I just put up a small project on GitHub to do that. I am posting here for feedback and in case
it might be useful to somebody else.
On Windows, the program will use environment variables. On linux-like OS, it will use uname with popen.
Example on Windows:
c:> lua test_get_os_name.lua
os="Windows" arch="x86"
Example on MacOs X:
$ lua test_get_os_name.lua
os="Mac" arch="x86_64"
Example on Linux:
$ lua test_get_os_name.lua
os="Linux" arch="x86_64"
It is heavily based on the following Gist:
https://gist.github.com/soulik/82e9d02a818ce12498d1
The project page :
https://github.com/bluebird75/lua_get_os_name
What would be really nice is to fetch the actual windows version. If you have some ideas....
Cheers,
Philippe
