Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:26:36 -0500 From: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> To: freebsd-emulation <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: wine and MS InternetExplorer Message-ID: <20080814182636.19753pe2v866l5yc@econet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20080814175218.187454uxox5q8tss@econet.encontacto.net> References: <20080810204625.18453tshxwqgptkw@econet.encontacto.net> <78cb3d3f0808120238k163092bfw2e3f5b49a33c9773@mail.gmail.com> <20080813082735.113561o9a39zgwsg@econet.encontacto.net> <48A494CC.60704@vwsoft.com> <20080814175218.187454uxox5q8tss@econet.encontacto.net>
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Quoting eculp <eculp@encontacto.net>: > Quoting Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>: > >> On 12/23/-58 20:59, eculp wrote: >>> Quoting Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:46 AM, eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> wrote: >>>>> Is there any way to get MS Internet explorer to work under wine. The >>>>> government here has some forms that require it and won't work with >>>>> firefox >>>>> or opera. The part that bothers me even more is that they seem to be >>>>> microsoft java apps. >>>>> >>>>> I see there is an iexplorer in the distribution and I added gecko >>>>> support >>>>> but still couldn't get more that a transparent box. >>>> >>>> There is the IEs4Linux project which theoretically could be used also >>>> on FreeBSD -- see the link below, follow the installation instructions >>>> and let us know what results you get. >>>> >>>> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/ >>>> >>>> Apparently there is no FreeBSD port for this at this time, but if it >>>> works for you then I guess it would make a really good candidate >>>> (especially for enterprise/office environments) >>> >>> Thanks, Adrian. I took a look at it yesterday but didn't have time to >>> install it. I'm downloading it now. It will be interesting to see if it >>> is complete enough to work with the government's windows centric forms. >>> I will post results to the list asap >>> >>> Thanks again, >>> >>> ed >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Adrian. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> ed, >> >> I'm running IE6 under wine for quite some time now. IIRC I've installed >> IE manually. Tried IES4Linux before and found it too difficult to patch >> as it's too Linux'ish (heavily Linux specific bash install scripts needs >> _a lot_ of tweaking). >> >> You may find instructions for installation on the net. Make sure, you're >> using latest wine and set the environment to Win98 for IE. Running such >> a crappy tool (IE) under FreeBSD seems to be braindead, but there are >> situations where there's no other way. BTW, check licensing issues first. > > Thanks, Volker. I agree with the part about brain dead but here you =20 > can't access many government forms with out it. Governments aren't =20 > usually recognized for their technological brilliance. > > I'm assuming that you are using only the executable because I have =20 > tried to download, unpack and install it windows style and it didn't =20 > want to cooperate. > > This should be better than IES4Linux that I haven't got going yet. =20 > It seems to want a newer wine and I'm running wine-1.1.2,1 and =20 > have't continued to investigate. > > I'll give an IE6 executable a try. Just got a copy of IE6 copied it and ran: wine "/root/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/ explorer.exe" and got: fixme:shell:StopWatchMode () stub! fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000002, 00000000): partial stu= b. wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x3534336c at address =20 0x3534336c (thread 0009), starting debugger... With loads like: 5680 root 1 102 0 5468K 3112K CPU1 1 0:49 32.28% wineserve= r 5717 root 1 60 0 12172K 4244K CPU1 1 0:18 8.79% =20 wine-pthread 5678 root 1 57 0 23548K 12984K piperd 1 0:15 8.06% =20 wine-pthread My guess would be to find one a little bit older maybe. Thanks, ed
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