IMS WebEngine

What works

The program works to platinum standard, BUT the installation doesn't due to numerous msi errors.

What does not

Installation due to numerous msi errors

Workarounds

What was not tested

To be absolutely correct I have assumed the V2.00k will work perfectly as V2.00f & V2.00j worked perfectly although I haven't actually tested it bacause I can't install it.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Rated as Garbage ONLY because you can't install it. Otherwise I would have rated it GOLD maybe platinum !

How To Install the windows version of IMS WebEngine with wine on linux

Written by Nick Law - 11/Oct/06

Last Updated - 11/Oct/06

Prerequisite

1. Delete & Recreate an old .wine folder...

If you have been running wine for some time and the .wine folder ( /home/yourlogin/.wine ) was created by an earlier version of wine... i.e. not 0.9.22 you will need to delete /home/yourlogin/.wine and type winecfg in a console window which will recreate the .wine folder. Ignore the error that comes up when you run winecfg, as long as it says creating /home/yourlogin/.wine. If you have just installed wine 0.9.22 for the first time, then the installation should go ok.

2. Download MFC42.DLL and MSVCIRT.DLL from here

You will need to copy these dll files into /home/yourlogin/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

3. Gotcha's

And Finally makesure you install WebEngine as a user not root !, same goes for winecfg, user not root !

Installation

1. Install wine 0.9.22 if you haven't already done so. My personal preference is to download the wine source code official releases which appear every 2 to 4 weeks. You then run "./configure", "make depend", "make" and finally "make install". If you have never done this before take a look at the Wow Appdb page which can be found here http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606 This should give you some pointers, ignore the stuff about patches, they are not needed to run WebEngine. Check out the wine wiki and if it still makes no sense post a message here and I'll see if I can help.

2. Open a console window and type winecfg. This will create the .wine directory in your home directory. Makesure you are not root when you do this !! else the .wine directory will be created in the wrong place.

3. Copy the two dll files, MFC42.DLL and MSVCIRT.DLL that you downloaded earlier into /home/yourlogin/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 ( replacing 'yourlogin' with whatever your login name happens to be. ( type "who am i" in a console window, the first word on the line is your login name ).

4. Download the IMS WebEngine Installation wrapper executable file from http://www.virtualmechanics.com/downloads/index.html and save it somewhere like /home/yourlogin/downloads/IMS/

5. Open a console window as user (not root)

6. Type "cd /home/yourlogin/downloads/IMS"

7. In the console window type "wine SetupWebEngineV200k.Exe" and follow the instructions.

8. The program will install and create an icon on the desktop. This icon doesn't work in wine 0.9.22 so delete it.

9. Create a new icon that points to "/home/guest/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Virtual Mechanics/Web Engine V2/bin/IMSEngineV2.exe"

10. Alternatively just type the following in a console window to run WebEngine V2

"wine /home/guest/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Virtual Mechanics/Web Engine V2/bin/IMSEngineV2.exe"

That's it !, any questions, then please post them below.