2 Registry Command Line API Tool
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5 This progam is intended to fill a particular need. I needed to make the
6 wine registry look like it would have been if my application would have
7 been installed by its installation program. Since this was not possible I
8 took the following approach.
10 1 - Use regedit to export my full Windows registry before I install my
13 2 - Use regedit to export my full Windows registry after I had install my
16 3 - Generate the differences between the two image. What I obtain from the
17 diff is what I need to apply to the wine registry.
19 Obvisouly the process is not that straight forward to solve, first,
20 you don't get the diff between two Windows regedit exported .reg file by
21 doing a simple diff. What I had to do is a little more complex, but not
24 (Assuming that the registry picture files are
25 named ./before.reg and ./after.reg)
27 1 - Parse the before.reg and after.reg file into regFixer.pl, in order to
28 obtain lines in the form [HKEY\Sub1\Sub2\...\Subn]"Value"="Data"
29 (where "Data" can be prefixed by the type identifyer : hex:, hex(0000000?)
32 2 - Generate the diff between the before.reg.fix and after.reg.fix
35 Now we have a app.reg file that contain what has been done by installing the
36 application. To this we extract the part's that we are interested in using
37 grep (and fix it with sed) and put that into app.added by example
38 ( let say we keep the added values only ).
40 At this point we know which registry entry to add to the wine registry. It
41 only remains to take the format we have and reset it into a format similar
42 to the one we get from regedit.
44 I say "similar" because there is a tiny difference between Windows regedit
45 export format and the format actualy required by the tool.
47 The problem with this (and it is not a big one) is that regedit export long
48 data streams onto many lines, and since I dont have tons of time I setup
49 another Perl script (regRestorer.pl) that fixes this (this could easily
50 be done in C obviously) (left as excercise ;-) ).
52 So, once you parsed app.added into regRestorer.pl you get a app.reg ready to
55 So, this package comes with a few pieces:
57 regFixer.pl - Will convert the export of regedit
58 into something "diff-able"
60 regRestorer.pl - Will convert "cleaned" diff file into
61 something "regapi-able"
63 regSet - Will do the procedure explained herein
64 for the added key only.
72 1 - Get a snapshot of your windows registry in before.reg, (regedit/export)
73 2 - Install you're application,
74 3 - Get a snapshot of your windows registry in after.reg.
75 4 - Invoke ./regSet.sh before.reg after.reg
78 Adding key I have in a regedit export file (nothing to diff with...)
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80 1 - Invoke ./regSet.sh /dev/null myRegistry.reg
84 1 - regapi has some sort of "man page like" help in it, simply invoke it
85 without any arguments.
87 Hope this is of any use to you.