How to determine if an application is running in Wine environment?

[Raghavan Gurumurthy]

BlankIf i want to do some special handling inside my Windows executable when running in Wine environment, what is the best way to do this?

Thanks,
-- 
Raghavan Gurumurthy
Gupta Technologies

[Bill Medland]

On June 9, 2004 10:07 am, Raghavan Gurumurthy wrote:
> BlankIf i want to do some special handling inside my Windows executable
> when running in Wine environment, what is the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Unless things have changed, I think the normal suggestion is to look for the 
> HKLM/Software/Wine registry key
> -- 
> Bill Medland
> mailto:billmedland(a)mercuryspeed.com
> http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed

[Mike Hearn]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:51:35 -0700, Bill Medland wrote:
> Unless things have changed, I think the normal suggestion is to look for the 
> HKLM/Software/Wine registry key

That works though if you are trying to work around a Wine bug a better
approach is just to fix it.

[Joshua Walker]

Hold on...
Let's pretend that a particular software manufacturer
decides that running thier software under wine is no
in the best intrest of the company. Or better yet,
decides that if the program isn't running under a true
Microsoft windows It will you that running program XYZ
under Wine is illigal (Due to click-wrap licence
agreement). Can you safely remove that key so that
"menie" programs like that don't know where they are.

Remeber DR-DOS and Win3.1?
 


--- Bill Medland <billmedland(a)mercuryspeed.com> wrote:
> On June 9, 2004 10:07 am, Raghavan Gurumurthy wrote:
> > BlankIf i want to do some special handling inside
> > my Windows executable
> > when running in Wine environment, what is the best
> > way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Unless things have changed, I think the normal
> > suggestion is to look for the 
> > HKLM/Software/Wine registry key
> > -- 
> > Bill Medland
> > mailto:billmedland(a)mercuryspeed.com
> > http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:13:19 -0700, Joshua Walker wrote:
> Let's pretend that a particular software manufacturer
> decides that running thier software under wine is no
> in the best intrest of the company. Or better yet,
> decides that if the program isn't running under a true
> Microsoft windows It will you that running program XYZ
> under Wine is illigal (Due to click-wrap licence
> agreement). Can you safely remove that key so that
> "menie" programs like that don't know where they are.

Not trivially, but if you are thinking of Microsoft then that would be
illegal and I doubt they are keen on landing themselves in court all over
again.

There are ways to detect Wine that would be nearly impossible to fool
without extensive system modifications. We'll jump that hurdle when we
come to it.