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Add a page about mingw-w64 wildcard expansion
We want to change the default, so add some docs we can point to in the upcoming NEWS entry.
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# C/C++ | ||
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## Expanding wildcard arguments | ||
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For making your program accept wildcard arguments, the official MSVC way is to | ||
link [w]setargv.obj to your program. By default it is not enabled. For more | ||
details see | ||
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-language/expanding-wildcard-arguments | ||
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With mingw-w64 there are three ways wildcard expansion con be configured: | ||
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1. mingw-w64 can be configured at build time to either enable or disable wildcard expansion by default via the `--enable-wildcard` configure flags. This can to be overridden on a per .exe basis by the user. | ||
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Currently wildcard expansion is enabled by default in MSYS2. | ||
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2. You can set `_dowildcard` in your source code to either `0` or `-1` to disable or enable wildcard expansion. | ||
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```c | ||
// To force-enable wildcard expansion | ||
int _dowildcard = -1; | ||
// To force-disable wildcard expansion | ||
int _dowildcard = 0; | ||
``` | ||
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3. You can link in `CRT_noglob.o` or `CRT_noglob.o` to disable or enable wildcard expansion. This will error out if `_dowildcard` is already set in the source. | ||
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```bash | ||
# To enable force-enable wildcard expansion | ||
cc main.c $(cc -print-file-name=CRT_glob.o) | ||
# To force-disable wildcard expansion | ||
cc main.c $(cc -print-file-name=CRT_noglob.o) | ||
``` |