get login name in qmake script

[Bart_Vandewoestyne]

I am porting some Perl code to qmake. The Perl code gets the current login name with

my($login_name) = lc getlogin;

and uses that login name for replacing some text in a configuration file. I have translated the Perl code into a QMAKE_POST_LINK action that does the same textual replacement, but within my QMAKE_POST_LINK action i now also need that same login name.

This should work on both Windows and Linux. Is there a way to get that login name in a qmake .pro file?

See also https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/getlogin

[mchinand]

Something like this:

MYUSERNAME=NO_USERNAME
win32 {
MYUSERNAME = $$(USERNAME)
}
unix {
MYUSERNAME = $$(USER)
}
message(The username is $$MYUSERNAME)

[Bart_Vandewoestyne]

Yes, thanks. That was also what I have figured out in the meanwhile :-)