Verb request: Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime

[qwertychouskie]

Download: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=2124703

Apps like the Adobe Creative Cloud installer will use WebView2 if available instead of mshtml.dll. There is one workaround needed though, msedgewebview2.exe needs to be set to Windows 7 for apps using WebView2 to work (at least the Creative Cloud installer anyways).

[st-jude]

Thanks for this trick! I was having UI issues with Universal Audio vst plugs and this did fix the issue, unfortunately creating another one. The UI now finally appears and am able to move around the knobs etc but now once i try to remove the plugin or close it my DAW crashes. This happened both in Ardour and Reaper.

[austin987]

@qwertychouskie were you testing this in a 32 or 64 bit prefix? What wine version?

For me, it installs fine in a 32bit prefix, but on 64bit there's a crash. Setting the windows version to win7 didn't help.

Didn't try using it with a real app yet..

[zmtong1988]

Can it be installed successfully?

[flleeppyy]

Can it be installed successfully?

Wine 9.22 staging

export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wineprefixes/webview2test
wine wineboot
winetricks vcrun2017 corefonts
wine ~/Downloads/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX86.exe # Latest x86 from ms website, but try https://web.archive.org/web/20241127085924/https://msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/c234a7e5-8ebb-49dc-b21c-880622eb365b/MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX86.exe
winetricks --force vcrun2015 # ctrl-c it when it stucks at waiting for wine server. Its a required step. Yes, really
winecfg -v win10

I was able to get webview2 installed with a fresh wineprefix, opening edge works pretty okay, it chugs, but it flashes a LOT. As for software that uses Webview2, I have no clue, I only have one program build with webview2 but it's Byond 516 which is a private beta, so, not entirely allowed to show screenshots.

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