Running Internet Explorer 5 with Wine

yapp · 09-11-2005, 04:59 AM

This may seam like a weird question: I'd like to run Internet Explorer 5.x with Wine. I don't use IE to browse for websites (I have konqueror for that), but I use it to test the websites I create. MSIE 5.0/5.5/6.0 have nasty bugs with stylesheet rendering, but unfortunately I can't ignore MSIE because many visitors use it.

I have Internet Explorer 6.0 working, but I still need to test with 5.0/5.5.

From quirksmode.org, I copied the older MSIE versions, but I get this error when running an older version of MSIE:

Quote:

wine: Call from 0x40168a to unimplemented function shdocvw.dll.IEWinMain, aborting
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...
WineDbg starting on pid 0x8
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function shdocvw.dll.IEWinMain called in 32-bit code (0x45b6a053).

I get the sense that wine can't find the right SHDOCVW.DLL, but how can this be fixed?

Thanks in advice.

perfect_circle · 09-11-2005, 06:30 AM

You can run it with crossover office. When I installed Microsoft office 2000 in linux (with crossover office) IE 5 was also installed. The webpage is http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ but the product is not for free

yapp · 09-11-2005, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by perfect_circle
The webpage is http://www.codeweavers.com/products/ but the product is not for free

Too bad, because I already have the rest working with the normal version of Wine... I still hope it's possible with wine itself.

sorin25 · 09-12-2005, 11:15 AM

I found this in another post:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index.html
It's a script that installs and configures IE5/IE5.5/IE6 on linux using wine. I didn't try the script, but it seems to work.

yapp · 09-12-2005, 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sorin25
I found this in another post:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index.html
It's a script that installs and configures IE5/IE5.5/IE6 on linux using wine. I didn't try the script, but it seems to work.

Really cool, thanks a lot! This seams like the best solution that could be found.. An automated installer script :-)

update: I didn't get the IE versions of the automated installer script working, but I found a trick to fix my first problem.

I managed to get the older versions of MSIE running with the following command:

Code:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="urlmon=n;shdocvw=n;mshtml=n"
wine 'C:/Program Files/Multiple IE/ie5.01sp2nt/IEXPLORE.EXE'

gkiagia · 09-12-2005, 12:57 PM

I did that with wine tools.
winetools normally installs IE6 but if you put the ie5 setup program (with all the rest .cab files) in ~/winetools/sys and rename it to ie6setup.exe , winetools will use it instead of downloading the real ie6setup.exe.
I used wine20050429. By the way, what version of wine are you using? There might be a bug in wine preventing you from installing ie. Link to winetools:
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

yapp · 09-12-2005, 05:02 PM

Whoo hoo. I've managed to get IE5/5.5 working with 'ies4linux' in wine 20050725.

I needed a long list of dll-overrides to get it working. Basically I added a new dll-override each time I get an "stub" error message at the console.

This is the list I've used to run it:

Code:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ole32=n;mlang=n;shdocvw=n;shdoclc=n;
urlmon=n;shlwapi=n;mshtml=n;mshtmled=n;mshtmler=n;wininet=n"
wine /home/diederik/.ies4linux/ie55/drive_c/etc...

sorin25 · 09-13-2005, 03:13 AM

Checkout the wine.conf man, there is a section for DllOverrides, and also one per application [AppDefaults\\<appname>\\DllOverrides]. I haven't used it, but should shorten your command line a lot.

gkiagia · 09-13-2005, 06:38 AM

Hey, wine.conf isn't used anymore since wine 200506xx.
Instead, you can add dlloverrides using wineconf, the wine configuration utility.

yapp · 09-14-2005, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gkiagia
Hey, wine.conf isn't used anymore since wine 200506xx.
Instead, you can add dlloverrides using wineconf, the wine configuration utility.

I don't believe I've found application-specific dlloverrides in the winecfg tool yet.. I've found the keys in the registry though.