How to make vcxproj options vary based on Windows OS

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I want to edit a vcxproj file and possibly some source code to take a different value when the OS is Windows XP versus Windows 7. For instance, I have code that I run under Excel 2003 in Windows XP and under Excel 2010 in Windows XP. I would like to change the Debugging entry to the associated Excel executable accordingly. Where would I find the relevant documentation to do this?

Posted 11-Apr-11 13:06pm

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Updated 11-Apr-11 13:07pm

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Hans Dietrich · Answer 1 · 2011-04-11T15:55:00

Solution 1

Your three choices are:

1. Conditional compile using statements like #ifdef EXCEL2003 etc.

2. Conditional run-time selection; this would use some run-time variable like this:

if bExcel2003)
{
    // do Excel 2003 stuff
}

3. You can take (2) to the extreme and have different DLLs depending on the Excel version.

Posted 11-Apr-11 15:55pm

Hans Dietrich

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T2102 11-Apr-11 22:04pm

Yes, I understand that I can use conditional compilation. I am hoping to find a preprocessor macro that differentiates windows 7 from windows xp sp3 and hoping it's usable in vxproj too.

Hans Dietrich 11-Apr-11 22:19pm

A preprocessor macro is just that - it gets interpreted before the compile. So at run-time, a preprocessor macro has already come and gone, and can't possibly do what you want. You need something that runs at run-time, that will choose the correct code to run.

T2102 11-Apr-11 22:29pm

Yes, I want something interpreted before the compile. My desktop has Windows 7 and my laptop has Windows XP. I want to be able to work and debug on my code on either computer without maintaining two copies of vcxprojs and props files.