I have an application built with the MinGW C++ compiler that works something like grep - acommand looks something like this:
myapp -e '.*' *.txt
where the thing that comes after the -e switch is a regex, and the thing after that is file name pattern. It seems that MinGW automatically expands (globs in UNIX terms) the command line so my regex gets mangled. I can turn this behaviour off, I discovered, by setting the global variable _CRT_glob to zero. This will be fine for bash and other sensible shell users, as the shell will expand the file pattern. For MS cmd.exe users however, it looks like I will have to expand the file pattern myself.
So my question - does anyone know of a globbing library (or facility in MinGW) to do partial command line expansion? I'm aware of the _setargv feature of the Windows CRT, but that expands the full command line. Please note I've seen this question, but it really does not address partial expansion.
Edit: I've ended up using conditional compilation to write my own globbing code for the Windows version of my app. This was pretty easy as I have my own CommandLine class which encapsulates argc and argv from main(). Still, I'd be interested to hear of other solutions.