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vlast777

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Registered: 2015-02-10

Posts: 57

Are wine version, installed dlls etc stored in the prefix?

Hey,

if I installed a special version of wine (i.e. not the latest one) and installed some DLLs with either PlayOnLinux or winetricks, are those saved in the wineprefix?

I mean if a run a game like

$ WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wine/prefix wine game.exe

does it use the wine version and settings which I set up for this special prefix or does it use the latest version of wine installed? Or is each prefix an own "wine on itself" with own settings, versions, dlls etc?

Soukyuu

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Registered: 2014-04-08

Posts: 854

Re: Are wine version, installed dlls etc stored in the prefix?

The WINE version is the same across prefixes, but the stuff you install with winetricks is prefix specific.
I haven't used PlayOnLinux, but from what I know, it can actually manage multiple WINE versions - but only if you start programs from within PlayOnLinux.

So your example of setting WINEPREFIX would use the currently installed WINE version. You could check which path the "wine" part of the command refers to by running "which wine".

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