Is there a (Qt) way to determine the platform a Qt application is running on at runtime?
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Is there a (Qt) way to determine the platform a Qt application is running on at runtime?
Note that the Q_WS_* macros are defined at compile time, but QSysInfo gives some run time details.
To extend gs’s function to get the specific windows version at runtime, you can do
and similar for Mac.
If you are using a Qt version 5.9 or above, kindly use the below mentioned library function to retrieve correct OS details, more on this can be found here. There is also a QSysInfo class which can do some additional functionalities.