How to get installed application to be detected by rofi?

I recently installed an IDE into /opt (I know that some recommend putting software into /usr/local but this was entirely self-contained) because the application was not available in my ditro's repositories and I had to install it from a .sh file. The application runs fine when launching from the terminal; however, I would like to run it without having to declare the path to executable each time. I use Rofi as my application launcher but when I search for my IDE, it is not found(probably because I installed it without using a package manager - don't understand the reasons behind this behavior though). How can I get this application that I installed to /opt to be searchable by an application launcher like Dmenu or Rofi?