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Haven't done much with Windows for a long time, but IIRC Windows looks in the current directory for DLLs by default, and it has it in subdirectories. IIRC, there's some way to make an app search relative directories in the exe and maybe the Ginger guys dicked that up? WINE seems to run it if I move the DLLs into the base directory.
And then it works.
EDIT: Hmm. I was thinking that Windows might have something like -rpath to search relative paths for DLLs, but it sounds like it doesn't:
https://ibob.bg/blog/2018/12/16/windows-rpath/
So it sounds like copying DLLs a la what I did above isn't an unheard-of approach...