On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:30:15AM +0200, Alberto Massari wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > At 03.12 25/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >Message: 13 > >Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:10:32 +0200 > >From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Alberto Massari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: How can an app detect it's running under WINE? > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:25:23AM +0200, Alberto Massari wrote: > >> Hi everybody, > >> I am working on making our software (Stylus Studio, > >> http://www.stylusstudio.com) run under WINE, if this is feasible. To > >> achieve this, I have already implemented a bunch of APIs (the application > >> is built against the UNICODE version of the Win32 APIs) and fixed some > >bugs > >> I hit (I already mailed the first patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > >> > >> However, I would feel better if I could detect I am running under WINE > >and > >> gracefully disable some functionalities that are not yet fully supported; > >> is there any way to achieve this? Is there a WIN32 API (like, say, > >> GetVersionEx) that can return a string like "Windows 2000 (WINE)" or is > >> WINE trying to be as stealth as possible? > >http://www.winehq.org/FAQ/ would have been answering this in countless > >cases already. > > I'm sorry I asked this here, but the only help I got from the FAQ was: > > ------ > Q: How can I detect Wine? > A: You really shouldn't want to do this. If there's a quirk in Wine you > need to work around, it's *much* better to fix it in Wine (after all you're > a developer, so you should be able to gather enough help and knowledge to > fix it for real). > If you think you really want to know how to detect it anyway (maybe in > order to just have a cool "running on Wine" status text or so), then please > mail me. > (address-suppressed) > ------ > > So I though I could ask it here.... Argh ! That "(address-suppressed)" wasn't meant to be like that from the beginning... :-(
Originally that part showed my email address. Thanks for notifying me about this issue ! So yes, your posting is pretty much very justified after all. Like someone else said (IIRC), you could check for the existence of the Wine configuration registry key branch. That'd be a 150% reliable method of detecting Wine presence. But again, trying to fix issues would be preferrable. (unless there are just too many problems to be fixed) Andreas Mohr
