Hi, could someone please help me on creating a shortcut to a simple exe that runs without installation.

Configure button > (selection of virtual drive) > General tab > Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive

I've tried that and got an error: binary not found "have you installed the program to the default location ?"

Is that means I have to copy the exe into the wine's default location ?
I thought I could just make a shortcut linking to the exe outside wine's virtual folder

That means it must be installed (or copied) inside a virtual drive, yes

Edité par petch

petch, thanks for your help

I've also tried WinOnX. It allows to create a shortcut directly linking to a exe outside a virtual drive, however it can't display Japanese font (not a unicode program).

Then there's no other way from copying to inside a virtual drive.

Edité par tarata

Why do you want your .exe file to be outside of the virtual drive?

We've set that rule so that you can't break your program. We could change it in a future release though if you give a good reason for that

Well, running wine programs from external (fat32) drives can cause problems that wouldn't exist with a normal use. That's why we prefer to disable this feature...

This restriction is irritating. It shouldn't be mandatory (please add something like an option that could manually toggle it on/off). I've had no problems at all in earlier versions of playonlinux, when running programs from symbolic links to an ntfs partition.

I'm dual booting with windows, using a large ntfs partition to share data between the OS'es. It is a waste of space to have to copy a program from the ntfs partition (where I need it to be in order to run it from inside windows) to my home directory (to be able to run it from inside linux). Also, I'd like to be able to share between the operating systems the data modified by the respective program, which being saved in it's own folder, shouldn't be a problem if I were able to run it from the ntfs partition.

It already exists, open Tools > PlayOnLinux console, then type

Just don't expect support if something doesn't work.