On Feb 11, 2008 8:43 AM, L. Rahyen <research@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday February 11 2008 10:59:40 Cédric MARCOUX (sprimont) wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > i'm currently writing Win32 application under Delphi. > > I do all possible to get it compatible with wine. > > For design purpose I have made a little check to know in my application > > is run under wine or not. > > I just make a registry test to know if wine registries entry exist or > > not and it work fine. > > If exist I display a nice tux logo inside my appz :) > > > > However, I was wondering if there is a way to get from my emulated > > application the version of wine that host it? > > By definition, if you are trying to detect WINE and this is successful - this > is a bug. And there is no warranty that registry key you are testing doesn't > exist on Windows or exist on WINE (at least user can create it by hand in > Windows registry or remove it in WINE registry; or after some time it might > be changed/removed in WINE registry). > If there is any bugs, please report them at http://bugs.winehq.org . > If you decide to keep WINE-detection at least provide documented command-line > keys to disable it. For example, I saw one application that tries to detect > WINE and if this is successful it changes its behavior in some places and I > prefer to disable that because modern WINE works much better that at the time > the program (and its WINE-related workarounds) was created. > In other words, any attempt to detect WINE, or, even worse, its version, is > strongly discouraged practice (because relying on such a thing means relying > on bugs). > If you *really* require some workarounds ASAP, then you can give a user to > choose (either in menu/options dialog or at first startup) does he/she use > WINE or not - but this is also discouraged practice. > Don't forget to report a bug if you found one! > > There is the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine registry keys. I don't know if it stores the actual WINE version anymore, but it should only exist if you are running under WINE. Note that WINE isn't a sandbox. I believe it is possible for Win32 applications running under WINE to produce interrupts (0x80?) and make Linux system API calls. Bryan DeGrendel _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users