Just installed wine 5 stable on Mint 20 and am trying to install a "portable" windows executable that uses its own local directory full of DLLs. It's "portable" and thus has no installer.
Please Help. T.I.A.
PS, I'm posting as the search wants me to wait for like 2000+ seconds.
I believe you actually have to install a program in wine. You can't just say "execute this file", at least not that I know of. If the folder of dll's are not "standard", that being what is created when you create a wine prefix, they would need to be copied into a wine prefix and possibly registered in wine. As far as I know there is no way of running a windows program in wine without a wine prefix and the program installed or copied to it,
In theory it should just work: in a terminal 'cd' to the directory and then 'wine program.exe' (or with the path to wine if needed). If things work then you can make a shortcut or menu entry or whatever.
One possible issue is if any dlls are ones wine implements then by default wine's will be used. I think. Don't worry about it though if it works.
I'd generally recommend moving the portable executable into the root directory of the WINEPREFIX you are going to use, and then running it from there.
E.g. if using the default WINEPREFIX:
