Version of Windows

[Chris Teague]

This is probably trivial, but I'm having a tough time figuring out the
current version of Windows that Wine is mimicking.  I have a situation
where I need to behave differently if the version is NT (0x0500)
versus when it is XP (0x0600).  I see the WINVER #define, but that
doesn't seem right to me since this must be a runtime variable.  Can
someone point me at an example of how to tell what the current version
of Windows is?  Thanks,
Chris

[John Klehm]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Chris Teague <chris.teague(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is probably trivial, but I'm having a tough time figuring out the
>  current version of Windows that Wine is mimicking.  I have a situation
>  where I need to behave differently if the version is NT (0x0500)
>  versus when it is XP (0x0600).  I see the WINVER #define, but that
>  doesn't seem right to me since this must be a runtime variable.  Can
>  someone point me at an example of how to tell what the current version
>  of Windows is?  Thanks,
>  Chris

http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

Search for Version

[John Klehm]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:02 AM, John Klehm <xixsimplicityxix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Chris Teague <chris.teague(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is probably trivial, but I'm having a tough time figuring out the
> >  current version of Windows that Wine is mimicking.  I have a situation
> >  where I need to behave differently if the version is NT (0x0500)
> >  versus when it is XP (0x0600).  I see the WINVER #define, but that
> >  doesn't seem right to me since this must be a runtime variable.  Can
> >  someone point me at an example of how to tell what the current version
> >  of Windows is?  Thanks,
> >  Chris
>
> http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys
>
> Search for Version

More direct perhaps
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blobdiff;f=tools/wine.inf;h=97a7735...

[Reece Dunn]

On 19/03/2008, Chris Teague <chris.teague(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is probably trivial, but I'm having a tough time figuring out the
>  current version of Windows that Wine is mimicking.  I have a situation
>  where I need to behave differently if the version is NT (0x0500)
>  versus when it is XP (0x0600).  I see the WINVER #define, but that
>  doesn't seem right to me since this must be a runtime variable.  Can
>  someone point me at an example of how to tell what the current version
>  of Windows is?  Thanks,

Wine does not use the WINVER, or other associated version defines when
building a project - it automatically uses the latest Windows version
(although the API exposed may be incomplete due to missing functions).

Programatically, you can use GetVersionEx
[http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724451.aspx] to determine
the version of Windows at runtime in your program, although Microsoft
recommend using VerifyVersionInfo (see
[http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725491(VS.85).aspx] for an
example of its usage).

To change the version in Wine you can use winecfg (the 'Windows
Version' property on the 'Applications' tab).

HTH,
- Reece

[Robert Shearman]

Chris Teague wrote:
> This is probably trivial, but I'm having a tough time figuring out the
> current version of Windows that Wine is mimicking.  I have a situation
> where I need to behave differently if the version is NT (0x0500)
> versus when it is XP (0x0600).  I see the WINVER #define, but that
> doesn't seem right to me since this must be a runtime variable.  Can
> someone point me at an example of how to tell what the current version
> of Windows is?  Thanks,

Errm, GetVersion()?

If you're a developer for a Windows application it is a much better 
policy to check for features rather than checking the Windows version, 
since that feature may be implemented in a later service pack for that 
version of Windows.

-- 
Rob Shearman