From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 23:26:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73419106567D for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:26:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@encontacto.net) Received: from ns2.bafirst.com (72-12-2-19.static.networktel.net [72.12.2.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D098FC14 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:26:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@encontacto.net) Received: from HOME.encontacto.net ([189.190.8.164]) by ns2.bafirst.com with esmtp; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:26:37 -0500 id 000D5467.48A4BF2D.0001190A Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 80) by HOME.encontacto.net with local; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:26:36 -0500 id 0004AC28.48A4BF2C.0000FE89 Received: from 172.16.0.7 (172.16.0.7 [172.16.0.7]) by econet.encontacto.net (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:26:36 -0500 Message-ID: <20080814182636.19753pe2v866l5yc@econet.encontacto.net> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:26:36 -0500 From: eculp To: freebsd-emulation References: <20080810204625.18453tshxwqgptkw@econet.encontacto.net> <78cb3d3f0808120238k163092bfw2e3f5b49a33c9773@mail.gmail.com> <20080813082735.113561o9a39zgwsg@econet.encontacto.net> <48A494CC.60704@vwsoft.com> <20080814175218.187454uxox5q8tss@econet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20080814175218.187454uxox5q8tss@econet.encontacto.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (5.0-cvs) X-Remote-Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080803 Firefox/2.0.0.16 X-IMP-Server: 189.190.8.164 X-Originating-IP: 201.155.7.3 X-Originating-User: eculp@encontacto.net Subject: Re: Re: wine and MS InternetExplorer X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:26:39 -0000 Quoting eculp : > Quoting Volker : > >> On 12/23/-58 20:59, eculp wrote: >>> Quoting Adrian Penisoara : >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:46 AM, eculp 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