wine and MS InternetExplorer

[eculp]

Quoting eculp <eculp at encontacto.net>:

> Quoting Volker <volker at vwsoft.com>:
>
>> On 12/23/-58 20:59, eculp wrote:
>>> Quoting Adrian Penisoara <ady at freebsd.ady.ro>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:46 AM, eculp <eculp at 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  
> can't access many government forms with out it.  Governments aren't  
> usually recognized for their technological brilliance.
>
> I'm assuming that you are using only the executable because I have  
> tried to download, unpack and install it windows style and it didn't  
> want to cooperate.
>
> This should be better than IES4Linux that I haven't got going yet.   
> It seems to want a newer wine and I'm running wine-1.1.2,1 and  
> 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 stub.
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x3534336c at address  
0x3534336c (thread 0009), starting debugger...

With loads like:
5680 root          1 102    0  5468K  3112K CPU1   1   0:49 32.28% wineserver
  5717 root          1  60    0 12172K  4244K CPU1   1   0:18  8.79%  
wine-pthread
  5678 root          1  57    0 23548K 12984K piperd 1   0:15  8.06%  
wine-pthread

My guess would be to find one a little bit older maybe.

Thanks,

ed