[Wine] Re: Wine on a Flash drive

[Daniel Skorka]

Henri <x at x.com> wrote:
> well, english is not my native language, I try again :)
> this is what I mean for portable application: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application
> the portable applications don't store anything  on the computer.
> unfortunally most of application use registry to store app settings or 
> to retrieve a com object etc ...

Ah, I see.

> my idea was to install a wine environement on a flash drive, so i would 
> be able to run this kind of application on a flash drive.
> I'm new to wine and I suppose win32 packages could run on windows.

AFAICT, the win32 packages contain the wine dlls compiled for win32, so
that they can be substituted for the real ones to test their behaviour.
Theoretically, you could take the DLL responsible for registry access
from the wine tree, hack it to write and read from more than one
registry and get the application to use it. In practice, this may be
impossible because it could be one of the core DLLs that cannot be
substituted.

Daniel