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How to run cross-platform script on CDROM that works in both windows and OSX?


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Hi all,

I'm looking at making a script on a CD-ROM, that will;

  1. recognise the operating system of the machine it has been inserted in to
  2. run a specific script for that operating system

Is there a cross-platform script/code language that would be recognised by both Windows and OSX, as a standard build?

I understand that Python, for example, could run on both, however this would require the user to have installed it. Is there a language that both OSX and Windows would recognise straight-out-of-the-box?

I tried a few internet searches, but everything I find pretty much states you have to download additional files to the PC (e.g; installing Python), which is no good.

Thank you.

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I know a really ugly way to do this, it kinda works but is going to throw some errors in the process. you create a .bat file like auto.bat:

#/bin/sh
goto label0
./MacOSX_program
exit 0
label0:
.\Windows_program.exe

The windows OS will see that the filename has a .bat extension. I doesn't know what #/bin/sh means so it throws an error, but continues on. It follows the goto the label0 and then runs the Windows_program.exe.

The mac OS will ignore the .bat extension, but read #/bin/sh as a shell script. it will error on the goto, but continue on to run the MacOSX_program

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On ‎03‎/‎07‎/‎2016 at 6:15 PM, fugu said:

I know a really ugly way to do this, it kinda works but is going to throw some errors in the process. you create a .bat file like auto.bat:


#/bin/sh
goto label0
./MacOSX_program
exit 0
label0:
.\Windows_program.exe

The windows OS will see that the filename has a .bat extension. I doesn't know what #/bin/sh means so it throws an error, but continues on. It follows the goto the label0 and then runs the Windows_program.exe.

The mac OS will ignore the .bat extension, but read #/bin/sh as a shell script. it will error on the goto, but continue on to run the MacOSX_program

Interesting workaround, thank you. I'll have to have a play with this.

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