Re: Internet explorer not detected

On 5/11/07, James Hawkins  wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Louis Lenders  wrote:
> > Hi, i tried help this dude on IRC channel getting an application to run called
> > MegaSpoof. Even after creating fake registry key it kept complaining about
> > missing Internet Explorer.
> > After looking through the +relay log i found this:
> > 000d:Call KERNEL32.CreateProcessW(00000000,0034f428 L"c:\Program
> > Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe -Embedding",0000000
> > 0,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,0034f7d8,0034f828) ret=77f1d75f
> > 000d:Ret  KERNEL32.CreateProcessW() retval=00000000 ret=77f1d75f
> >
> > In current wine a simple "wine "c:\Program Files\Internet
> > Explorer\iexplore.exe"" just fails , because we don't have that directory. After
> > manually creating it , and copy iexplore.exe.so to /Program Files/Internet
> > Explorer/iexplore.exe, the application didn't complain anymore, and got further.
> >
> > Question: do we need to mimic windows behaviour, and create that directory + put
> > wine's iexplore in it, or is the policy that in this case we just have to
> > download MS ie6, and install that (as the application suggested)
>
> c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer is where iexplore.exe is put in XP,
> so I think we should mimic that.  It wouldn't be hard to add that to
> wine.inf:[FakeDllsSection].

really "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\Internet Explorer", right?  I
don't really feel sorry for apps that assume everything is running
from C:
> --
> James Hawkins