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os.getversion

Retrieve version information for the host operating system.

#!lua
os.getversion()

Introduced in Premake 4.4, this function has not yet been implemented for all platforms. On platforms where this has not been implemented, it will return zero for all version numbers, and the platform name as the description.

Return Value

A table, containing the following key-value pairs:

majorversion	The major version number
minorversion	The minor version number
revision	The bug fix release or service pack number
description	A human-readable description of the OS version

Examples

#!lua
local ver = os.getversion()
print(string.format(" %d.%d.%d (%s)", 
   ver.majorversion, ver.minorversion, ver.revision,
   ver.description))
 
-- On Windows XP: "5.1.3 (Windows XP)"
-- On OS X,: "10.6.6 (Mac OS X Snow Leopard)"