IE and MSN Messenger 7.0

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

Hello,

In WIne version 0.9.14 and earlier, MSN Messenger can be installed without 
installing IE6, but starting with 0.9.15, it complains about missing IE 
unless this is installed.
I tested this is the same .wine directory (created by Wine 0.9.17); to my 
knowledge, registry keys are only created when 'wineprefixcreate' is run, so 
that means the problem must be somewhere else.
My question is: is this a known side-effect due to the ongoing work on builtin 
IE and WIne's Gecko engine, or is it a nasty regression that should be 
tracked down?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=...

Regards,

Alexander N. Sørnes

[Paul Vriens]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 03:45 +0200, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In WIne version 0.9.14 and earlier, MSN Messenger can be installed without 
> installing IE6, but starting with 0.9.15, it complains about missing IE 
> unless this is installed.
> I tested this is the same .wine directory (created by Wine 0.9.17); to my 
> knowledge, registry keys are only created when 'wineprefixcreate' is run, so 
> that means the problem must be somewhere else.
> My question is: is this a known side-effect due to the ongoing work on builtin 
> IE and WIne's Gecko engine, or is it a nasty regression that should be 
> tracked down?
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=...
>
> Regards,
>
> Alexander N. Sørnes

Hi,

if you add \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version (REG_SZ
with 6.0.2900.2180) it installs.

Don't know where the regression is (if any).

Cheers,

Paul.

[Dan Kegel]

On 7/18/06, Paul Vriens  wrote:
> if you add \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version (REG_SZ
> with 6.0.2900.2180) it installs.

So many apps need this that I use a shell script to create it:
http://kegel.com/wine/fakeie.sh.txt

(One of these days I'll make that script use regedit...)