getOperatingSystemName() Does not return Windows 10

[nikolaiaudios]

Hi
On windows 10, SystemStats::getOperatingSystemName() returns “Windows 8.0”

Tried to debug into it, but I ended up in some windows api / binary mask stuff around isWindowsVersionOrLater(), so my brain swtiched to “protect-mode” and I now leave it to the Juce team.

[daniel]

That’s probably related to this communication:

getOperatingSystemType() returns wrong OS type with some DAW

Here is the official Microsoft documentation for the version number hack jules mentioned: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724451 Basically, if you want the Windows version to be reported correctly on Win8.1 and Win10, you need to put an extra thing in the app manifest saying that your app supports Win8.1 and Win10. However an audio plug-in cannot do that as it is merely a DLL loaded in a host. So to fix this, the host (Reaper in your case) needs to have that app man…

There it was about getOperatingSystemName() in a plugin, but the clues about manifests and stuff might apply here too…

[nikolaiaudios]

Hi Daniel
Yes I’m also trying to use the getOperatingSystemName.
I’m not creating a plugin dll, it is in a standalone app, so the manifest is created by the Projucer isn’t it?

[daniel]

Hi Nikolai,
yes I think so, but I am absolutely no expert in windows, I just wanted to connect to the thoughts I remembered reading.
I hope somebody with more profound experience in windows can chime in to either bring up a fix or explain how to deal with it…
Sorry

[kjetil]

Here’s the official example code from microsoft on how to get OS version number and name:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724439(v=vs.85).aspx