diff --git a/buildsuper.sh b/buildsuper.sh
index bd9a20ec..08daf561 100755
--- a/buildsuper.sh
+++ b/buildsuper.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-echo "Building custom_4coders.so from $SOURCE ..."
-
 # Find the code home folder
 
 # NOTE(allen): Copied from stack exchange, hope it's reasonable -- readlink doesn't work on mac
@@ -38,6 +36,7 @@ done
 PHYS_DIR=`pwd -P`
 SOURCE=$PHYS_DIR/$TARGET_FILE
 
+echo "Building custom_4coders.so from $SOURCE"
 FLAGS="-Wno-write-strings -Wno-null-dereference -Wno-comment -Wno-switch -Wno-writable-strings"
 g++ -I"$CODE_HOME" $FLAGS -std=gnu++0x "$SOURCE" -shared -o custom_4coder.so -fPIC
 
diff --git a/detect_os.sh b/detect_os.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2160aa9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/detect_os.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+os="unknown"
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+echo "mac"
+elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu" ]]; then
+echo "linux"
+fi
+
diff --git a/meta/build.cpp b/meta/build.cpp
index 505763d4..065a2513 100644
--- a/meta/build.cpp
+++ b/meta/build.cpp
@@ -246,20 +246,28 @@ build_cl(u32 flags, char *code_path, char *code_file, char *out_path, char *out_
 }
 
 #if defined(IS_LINUX)
+
+# error IS_LINUX
+
 # define GCC_OPTS                     \
 "-Wno-write-strings "                 \
 "-D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC "                \
 "-fno-threadsafe-statics -pthread"
+
 #define GCC_LIBS                               \
 "-L/usr/local/lib -lX11 -lpthread -lm -lrt "   \
 "-lGL -ldl -lXfixes -lfreetype -lfontconfig"
+
 #elif defined(IS_MAC)
+
 # define GCC_OPTS                                   \
 "-Wno-write-strings -Wno-deprecated-declarations "  \
 "-Wno-comment -Wno-switch -Wno-null-dereference "
+
 #define GCC_LIBS                          \
 "-framework Cocoa -framework QuartzCore " \
 "-framework OpenGL -framework IOKit"
+
 #else
 # error gcc options not set for this platform
 #endif