Chris Wellons • 1/19/2026

Frankenwine: Multiple personas in a Wine process

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This technical article details a method for building a program (like pkg-config) that can adopt different 'personas' depending on whether it's run natively on Windows or under Wine on Linux. It explains how to detect Wine, use Linux system calls directly from a Wine process, and merge platform layers to create a single binary that interacts appropriately with either the Win32 API or the Linux kernel.

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