>  2) there is no .exe so i was forced to install from msi,
>    a proprietary installer - which as a free software
>    developer, i have issues with, but i tried it anyway.

Please understand that MSI is *not* a proprietary installer.
Instead, it is just a data format to be interpreted by the
installer. Whether that installer is proprietary or not
depends on whether you use the Microsoft one, or write one
yourself (or perhaps use a free interpreter for MSI that
somebody else might have written).

So to help Wine, it would be best to write a proper MSI
interpreter.