MSYS2: How to disable automatic translation of pathname to drive letter?

Question

I\'m facing an issue when testing a C program compiled with mingw in the MSYS2 shell: I wrote a command line parser that accepts options according to the windows convention (sta

Answer 1

You can use the MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL environment variable to disable this behavior. For example, try running:

MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL=\* ./example.exe /o test