MonoGame Cross-Platform Conditional Compilation Symbols

Question

What are the possible compiler directives for MonoGame?

For example, XNA contained directives for WINDOWS, XBOX/XBOX360, and WINDOWS_PHONE.

I've also seen DIRECTX and OPENGL, but when would you need to leverage those?

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Supported Platforms:

• PC
• Windows 8 Store App
• Linux
• Android
• OUYA
• Mac
• iOS
• Playstation Mobile

Answer 1

If you look inside each project file on github you can see the constants defined for each platform. I've extracted them here:

• Android - TRACE;ANDROID;GLES;OPENGL
• Linux - LINUX;OPENGL
• MacOS - MONOMAC;OPENGL
• Ouya - TRACE;ANDROID;GLES;OPENGL;OUYA
• PSMobile - DEBUG;PSM
• Windows - DEBUG;TRACE;WINDOWS;DIRECTX;WINDOWS_MEDIA_SESSION
• Windows8 - TRACE;NETFX_CORE;WINRT;WINDOWS_STOREAPP;DIRECTX;DIRECTX11_1;WINDOWS_MEDIA_ENGINE
• WindowsGL - TRACE;WINDOWS;OPENGL
• WindowsPhone - TRACE;DEBUG;SILVERLIGHT;WINDOWS_PHONE;WINRT;DIRECTX
• iOS - IOS;GLES;OPENGL

Answer 2

in addition to the other answer for windows UWP apps you can use:

#if WINDOWS_UAP
    // windows UWP specific code
#endif