How to make Wine look for DLL in Program Files instead of /usr/share?

Question

I'm trying to run a game called Beneath the Nexus through Wine. The game said I needed .NET Desktop Runtime 5, so I downloaded the Windows installer and installed it. However when running the actual game, I get the following error message:

Message: A fatal error occurred, the required library hostfxr.dll could not be found in [Z:\usr\share\dotnet\host\fxr\5.0.7]

when I run find . | grep hostfxr in my .wine prefix, it finds the right DLL in a few places:

./drive_c/Program Files/dotnet/host/fxr/5.0.7/hostfxr.dll
./drive_c/Program Files (x86)/dotnet/host/fxr/5.0.7/hostfxr.dll

How can I make the game find these DLLs instead of looking in my /usr/share?

Answer 1

I was able to get the installer working by copying the DLL into the location of the .exe. Not sure why I had to do that, but it worked:

cd ./path/to/game
cp ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/dotnet/host/fxr/5.0.7/hostfxr.dll .