[Wine] Re: Wine on a Flash drive

[Segin]

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> 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
You could always use symbolic links.

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