Hi, I am looking for IE6 to run on Vista - In the URL below, it states that there is a Wine for Windows now - and IE 6 can be installed once you have Wine for Windows. Is this correct info? http://tredosoft.com/IE6_For_Vista_Part_1 I have recently installed Debian on a old Pentium 3 machine, so I may check out Wine on that platform as well. If the hardware can take it. I have I believe 384MB RAM. Don't have the monitor hooked up - so cannot say for sure at the moment. Thanks, Chronk
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:43 PM, chronk <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hi, > > I am looking for IE6 to run on Vista - In the URL below, it states that > there is a Wine for Windows now - and IE 6 can be installed once you have Wine for Windows. > Is this correct info? > > http://tredosoft.com/IE6_For_Vista_Part_1You didn't read it very carefully, did you? "Completely isolate Internet Explorer 6 from the Windows Kernel either through virtualization technology (e.g. VirtualPC, VMWare, or QEMU) or through Windows kernel emulation that actually works(!)(e.g. running IE6 using a version of Wine compiled under Cygwin or Interix)." Wine doesn't currently compile under Cygwin. That said, you may have luck compiling the dlls under Mingw and using those, but not sure if it'll work or not. Not really what Wine is meant to do. http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilingDLLsUsingMingw -- -Austin
2009/2/24 chronk <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> I am looking for IE6 to run on Vista - In the URL below, it states that > there is a Wine for Windows now - and IE 6 can be installed once you have Wine for Windows. > Is this correct info?There is no Wine for Windows. There are some of us pottering about with it in our spare time :-) http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows Problems: 1. It doesn't compile. 2. Even if it did, it wouldn't be able to launch Windows programs in Wine as-is. Mostly it's an exercise for the moment. It is, however, a desirable thing, as newer versions of Windows jettison compatibility with older versions of Windows. - d.