Dump / save settings from an existing Wine Prefix...

[sweet]

Is there anyway that I can dump the settings of an existing wine prefix? I'd like to be able to get a list of WINEDLLOVERRIDES and any other configurations that I could re-use when trying to replicate this prefix on another machine. Is there potentially a better way to replicate a wine prefix (without directly using cp, rsync or tar)

[jkfloris]

All settings in Wine are kept in the registry. Two places that have interesting information are:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wine

For example, you can list and save the overrides with wine reg ... or use wine regedit:

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# List the default overrides:
wine reg query 'HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /s
# Save the overrides:
wine reg export 'HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' backup.reg

# List program overrides:
wine reg query 'HKCU\Software\Wine\AppDefaults' /s
# Save the overrides:
wine reg export 'HKCU\Software\Wine\AppDefaults' backup2.reg

[sweet]

Thank you for your reply. Exporting the reg key is exactly what I needed. The one issue I'm having with this is that when I transfer the prefix to another machine the User Registry entries has the incorrect user name in the paths of reg-keys though.

[jkfloris]

You can run something like:

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# Convert the Windows reg file to Unix:
dos2unix backup.reg

# Find and replace the user name:
sed -i 's/user old/user new/g' backup.reg