scripts/wine_garmin_express/wine_garmin_express.md

First we start by creating a wineprefix and installing our prerequisites from terminal:

Install winetricks with e.g. yay winetricks (winetricks-git)

Since wine 10.8.2 use the following:

WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/GarminExpress winetricks dotnet472 vcrun2010 corefonts d3dcompiler_47

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/GarminExpress winetricks dotnet472 vcrun2010 corefonts d3dcompiler_47

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/GarminExpress winetricks win7

Note: You will be prompted during the setup for .NET installation just hit next and finish. Also, I like to seperate win7 after the prerequisites are setup to make sure the wineprefix runs in Windows 7 mode.

With that out of the way we need to download and install our GarminExpress.exe Setup executable. I downloaded mine from https://www.garmin.com/en-US/software/express

Run the GarminExpress.exe file in our wine prefix

WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/GarminExpress wine explorer /desktop=garmin,1366x768 /home/$USER/Downloads/GarminExpress.exe

Note: If you downloaded the GarminExpress.exe to another location replace it above

Modify your shortcut to be the following command

WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/GarminExpress wine explorer /desktop=garmin,1366x768 /home/$USER/Downloads/GarminExpress.exe

Upon Launch you should see this screen which should recognize your Garmin device