How to have DLLs recognized even in a clean prefix?

[Bamm]

Hello,

Is there a directory where I can install files so that they are automatically detected by wine as if they are installed in a wineprefix? I have the following files from icodecs in system32:

i263_32.drv
iac25_32.ax
iacenc.dll
ir41_32.ax
ir41_qc.dll
ir41_qcx.dll
ir50_32.dll
ir50_lcs.dll
ir50_qc.dll
ir50_qcx.dll
ivfsrc.ax
Iyvu9_32.dll

My wish is that, even if I delete and create a new wine prefix, a program will still find these files as though they are installed in the wine system32 directory.

If there is such a directory, then it will be really useful for me; I can use it for other DLLs too such as msvbvm60.dll.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

[spoon0042]

I think the default wineprefix creation uses /usr/share/wine/wine/wine.inf. In theory you could edit that if you knew what you were doing. The first problem I can think of is I don't know where it sources any files from.

[spoon0042]

Well I had a look and that probably won't work. I think anything in wine.inf would need to be visible from the wineprefix already unless it was hardcoded in wine somehow like the fakedlls. (Unless the Z: -> / link is made before that, maybe?) So short of some serious hacking of setupapi it's probably less work to just run winetricks or whatever every time.

[Bamm]

Thanks. I was experimenting and cannot find a way so far. I played around with /usr/share/wine/wine.inf and was able to change some default settings, but I don't know how I can set a directory where it can read additional DLLs.

Since there appears to be no such directory, could it be possible to customize the default wine prefix?

[dimesio]

All you have to do is specify a non-existant wineprefix on the command line when running winetricks, and it will be created, then the appropriate winetricks installed, e.g.,

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WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix sh winetricks icodecs

Just to be clear: that is NOT a clean wineprefix. A clean wineprefix by definition has nothing installed in it.