Query Platform/OS information

Table of Contents

• Get Current Platform Type/Name
• Query OS Version, Kernel, Distribution etc.
• Get current username

FPL provides a couple of functions for query operating system or platform information.

Get Current Platform Type/Name

Use fplGetPlatformType() to get the current fplPlatformType .
This can be useful to do different operations on different platforms.

Use fplGetPlatformName() to get a string representation for the given fplPlatformType .

fplPlatformType currentPlatform = fplGetPlatformType();
const char *platformName = fplGetPlatformName(currentPlatform);
fplConsoleFormatOut("Platform: %s\n", platformName);

Query OS Version, Kernel, Distribution etc.

You can retrieve the version/name of your operating system by calling fplOSGetVersionInfos() .
See fplOSVersionInfos for more details.

fplOSVersionInfos infos = fplZeroInit;
if (fplOSGetVersionInfos(&infos)) {
    fplConsoleFormatOut("Operating system name: %s\n", infos.osName);
    fplConsoleFormatOut("Operating system version: %s.%s.%s.%s\n", infos.osName.major, infos.osName.minor, infos.osName.fix, infos.osName.build);
}

Get current username

Use fplSessionGetUsername() to get the username for the current session.

char usernameBuffer[256];
if (fplSessionGetUsername(usernameBuffer, fplArrayCount(usernameBuffer))) {
    fplConsoleFormatOut("Current username: %s\n", usernameBuffer);
}