[Wine] How can I detect WINE from my program?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 11:07:26 CDT 2009


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:03 AM, andreaplanet <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> Sjors Gielen wrote:
>> IsWineBugFixed() sounds like *totally* the wrong way around.
>
> Ok, let's forget that function. Was just an idea, no need for it.
>
> And I understand the viewpoint that Wine
> - want to make applications looks like Windows
> - doesn't want to use hacks to make more Windows programs run (better)
>
> But since more than one developer here wants a different behaviour for his application (see my previous message) we only ask for a simple "getNativeOS" function. Then it's our trouble to handle the wanted customizations (in my case the use of the native Finder style for Mac OS X and the native Nautilus style for Linux to handle the file dialog boxes (just an example). I want a more user-friendly application and not an exact copy of Windows.

Native dialog boxes aren't allowed, many programs depend on certain
nuances of the native dialog boxes.

> Also is it possible to run always own  distributed native linux/mac binaries even with a hardened Linux sandbox?

Not sure what you mean here.

-- 
-Austin



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