Detecting Wine

[Austin English]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the best way for an application to detect that it's running under Wine?
>
> As part of the installation process, under Windows our program does a
> full-disk search of all local hard drives, but ignoring network drives
> and removable media.  Under Wine, this doesn't work too well, as
> there's not a one-to-one mapping between disks and drive letters, and
> there's usually at least one way to access the entire *nix filesystem.
>  If someone's got a few network drives mounted, the installer could
> spend hours searching them.
>
> --
> Mark Wagner
>
>
>

Easiest way is probably searching for wine specific registry keys.