https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50586
--- Comment #25 from Arnaud Dovi mr.dovi@gmail.com --- Sharing with you my user experience, I hope it will help you.
First let's describe the application I'm testing on, it is called Vortex, it is a mod manager written to install mods for various games.
I noted some difference in the behavior of the application with wine vs staging with the setup below
c:\symlink\app.exe with c:\symlink linking to external dosdevice x:\appdir\
on wine (expected behavior)
The app never knows about x:\appdir\ path at all. Everything belongs to c:\symlink, perfect
on staging
The base app.exe uses c:\symlink and never knows about x:\appdir\ perfect but part responsible of loading plugins, that is nodejs based, somehow discovers the path x:\appdir\ resulting in some modules being not found.