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Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines
http://xdissent.github.com/ievms
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Can this be used on a windows based system that has curl available? #229

Closed seiyria closed 8 years ago

seiyria commented 10 years ago

For example, we have the curl utility via git bash, but we don't have unar, for example. This would greatly help us at work.

fselem commented 10 years ago

Out of curiosity, why would you need a ie9 emulator on a Windows machine?

seiyria commented 10 years ago

Unfortunately our work machines ship with an updated version of IE, and in my experience, downgrading it is awful. We have to support at least IE9, so it'd be nice to just shuffle it all off into a VM.

StormPooper commented 9 years ago

It'd be useful to be able to quickly test multiple IE versions on one Windows machine too, without having to manually download/install/reinstall Modern IE VMs. Unfortunately, the scripts are all bash scripts, so I don't think it would work (though there's a chance it would work with cygwin or something).

StormPooper commented 9 years ago

Update to this: I've gotten it mostly working with Windows, but there are a couple of small issues. I plan on making a pull request when i get it fully working, I'll update here when i do.

seiyria commented 9 years ago

Thank you @StormPooper!

StormPooper commented 9 years ago

@seiyria I've got it working on my machine, if you want to try it out here.

Replace the script url in the readme with https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StormPooper/ievms/master/ievms.sh in any commands you're running and you should be good to go.

Let me know if it works for you and I'll submit a pull request to merge it in here.

seiyria commented 9 years ago

Hm, just using regular git bash, it tells me that it can't find curl, despite the fact that I used curl to download the script. Perhaps it's looking on my path, though, which wouldn't work. I only have it installed because of git bash.

StormPooper commented 9 years ago

@seiyria yes, it looks in your PATH for the executables. I'm using Git on mine too and it's working.

If you can remember, which of these did you select during installation? You need to select the third so it will place them on PATH for you.

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You can try reinstalling and selecting the third option, or just adding your Git\bin\ folder to PATH.

Alternatively, Cygwin or MinGW should work, but I haven't tried them.

StormPooper commented 9 years ago

@seiyria any luck in getting it to work?

smithk58 commented 9 years ago

@StormPooper - I installed Git with the third option and Git is on my path. If I run ievms.sh it says it can't find curl.

StormPooper commented 9 years ago

@smithk58 can you raise an issue here with what you've tried and what error you get, etc?

StormPooper commented 9 years ago

@seiyria @smithk58 can you please try downloading the script and running again? I've fixed an error in the check for curl.

seiyria commented 9 years ago

@StormPooper we kinda got slammed with things to do at work, so we'll try again when we can.

xdissent commented 8 years ago

Moving this to #80. Thanks for the effort @StormPooper ! Let me know (in #80) the latest status if you get a chance

fselem commented 8 years ago

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