Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:48:38 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, racerx@makeworld.com Cc: Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200702162048.39128.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <45D64D22.3090400@makeworld.com> References: <1d3ed48c0702161615m6b2dec1aha6c95c1f22c88aa1@mail.gmail.com> <45D64D22.3090400@makeworld.com>
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On Friday 16 February 2007 19:32, Chris wrote: > Kevin Downey wrote: > > I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the > > page in IE. > > A website I use for work uses ActiveX. > > I hate dual booting. > > What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? > > Four ways - in order of ease to hardness > > 1. Separate box that IS Windows. > 2. Dual Boot > 3. VMWare (or some equivalent) > 4. Wine (Goooood Luck) For current versions of Wine and FreeBSD this definitely won't work (I've tried). If you go back a few versions of one or the other or both there used to be a combination where wine's memory allocation wasn't hosed up under FreeBSD (I think). I don't understand enough about the current problem to say more than that, but there's a fair amount of discussion about it in various places. If you do get a happily functioning wine, there's a nice shell script (requires bash) package that will automatically fetch the IE binaries and dependent packages and set everything up for you. I can't remember what it's called offhand, though. JN
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