Re: How can an app detect it's running under WINE?

[Andreas Mohr]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:25:23AM +0200, Alberto Massari wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I am working on making our software (Stylus Studio, 
> http://www.stylusstudio.com) run under WINE, if this is feasible. To 
> achieve this, I have already implemented a bunch of APIs (the application 
> is built against the UNICODE version of the Win32 APIs) and fixed some bugs 
> I hit (I already mailed the first patch to [e-mail]).
>
> However, I would feel better if I could detect I am running under WINE and 
> gracefully disable some functionalities that are not yet fully supported; 
> is there any way to achieve this? Is there a WIN32 API (like, say, 
> GetVersionEx) that can return a string like "Windows 2000 (WINE)" or is 
> WINE trying to be as stealth as possible?

http://www.winehq.org/FAQ/ would have been answering this in countless
cases already.