Internet explorer not detected

[Louis Lenders]

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)

[James Hawkins]

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].

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

[James Hawkins]

On 5/11/07, [e-mail]  wrote:
> 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:

Actually, in setupapi it's:

DIRID_PROGRAM_FILES,"Internet Explorer",iexplore.exe

but I didn't think anyone would nitpick an obvious example, so I
didn't spell it out the first time around.

[Stefan Dösinger]

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

"Program Files" isn't hardcoded either, like on my German locale 
its "Programme".

[Tom Spear]

On 5/12/07, Stefan Dösinger  wrote:
> > really "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\Internet Explorer", right?  I
> > don't really feel sorry for apps that assume everything is running
>
> "Program Files" isn't hardcoded either, like on my German locale
> its "Programme".

Which would be done as %PROGRAMFILES%, anyways, not %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files