How to tell Mac from Linux wine within a Wine app? (steam hardware survey)
Is there an easy way for the steam hardware survey to tell whether it's running under Mac or Linux Wine? I remember discussing this issue with an engineer from Valve after asking they make the % of Wine users public again.
On 11/10/2012 02:03 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
Is there an easy way for the steam hardware survey to tell whether it's running under Mac or Linux Wine?
I remember discussing this issue with an engineer from Valve after asking they make the % of Wine users public again.
Why do you care? The best way is probably to try something that works on a Mac, and if it comes back with 'not implemented', try a workaround that works with Wine. It would not be a good idea to infer that because one thing is broken under wine, that some other work around is also needed. Each capability should be checked separately. Things can change fairly rapidly in Wine.
On 11/10/12 11:20 AM, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:
On 11/10/2012 02:03 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
Is there an easy way for the steam hardware survey to tell whether it's running under Mac or Linux Wine?
I remember discussing this issue with an engineer from Valve after asking they make the % of Wine users public again.
Why do you care?
The best way is probably to try something that works on a Mac, and if it comes back with 'not implemented', try a workaround that works with Wine.
It would not be a good idea to infer that because one thing is broken under wine, that some other work around is also needed. Each capability should be checked separately. Things can change fairly rapidly in Wine.
The purpose isn't to work around wine bugs by detecting wine, it's to find out how many Wine/Mac and Wine/Linux users there are so they can assess how that compares to the native clients.
On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
Is there an easy way for the steam hardware survey to tell whether it's running under Mac or Linux Wine?
I remember discussing this issue with an engineer from Valve after asking they make the % of Wine users public again. You can call the wine_get_host_version() function in ntdll. It's used by winetest to insert the host system info into its reports.
Chip
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