I am considering switching a cross platform project from separate build management systems in Visual C++, XCode and makefiles to CMake. One essential feature I need is to add automatically all files in a directory to a target. While this is easy to do with make, it is not easily doable with Visual C++ and … Read more
I would like to monitor the following system information in Java: Current CPU usage** (percent) Available memory* (free/total) Available disk space (free/total) *Note that I mean overall memory available to the whole system, not just the JVM. I’m looking for a cross-platform solution (Linux, Mac, and Windows) that doesn’t rely on my own code calling … Read more
Is there a package out there, for Ubuntu and/or CentOS, that has a command-line tool that can execute an XPath one-liner like foo //element@attribute filename.xml or foo //element@attribute < filename.xml and return the results line by line? I’m looking for something that would allow me to just apt-get install foo or yum install foo and … Read more
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I keep getting myself in knots when I am manipulating paths and file names because I don’t follow a naming standard for path components. Consider the following toy problem (Windows example, but hopefully the answer should be platform independent). You have been given the path of a folder: C:\users\OddThinking\Documents\My Source\ You want to walk the … Read more
I am sketching the architecture for a set of programs that share various interrelated objects stored in a database. I want one of the programs to act as a service which provides a higher level interface for operations on these objects, and the other programs to access the objects through that service. I am currently … Read more
This question already has answers here: Python: What OS am I running on? (26 answers) Closed last month. As the title says, how can I find the current operating system in python? 5 Answers 5
Is there a cross-platform way of getting the path to the temp directory in Python 2.6? For example, under Linux that would be /tmp, while under XP C:\Documents and settings\[user]\Application settings\Temp. 5 Answers 5
This question already has answers here: How do I check OS with a preprocessor directive? (16 answers) Closed 2 years ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 3 months ago and left it closed: Original close reason(s) were not resolved If there’s some cross-platform C/C++ code that should be compiled on Mac OS … Read more
What is the best way to find the user’s home directory in Java? The difficulty is that the solution should be cross-platform; it should work on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, OS X, Linux, and other Unix variants. I am looking for a snippet of code that can accomplish this for all platforms, and a way … Read more
