How can an app detect it's running under WINE?

[Alberto Massari]

At 13.22 25/10/2002 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:30:15AM +0200, Alberto Massari wrote:
> >[...]
>
>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)

Thanks for your answers: we all agree that the best thing to do is to have 
WINE support all the WIN32 API, and mimic all the Windows flavors.
But just like an application calls GetVersionEx to decide how to behave on 
a specific platform, it is perfectly valid for it to try to detect WINE as 
a variant of Windows, and react accordingly. That registry information is 
the right piece of information, as it could also be used to instruct the 
user on the changes needed to make the application work better.

Thanks again,

Alberto

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Alberto Massari
eXcelon Corp.
http://www.StylusStudio.com