How to stop MinGW and MSYS from mangling path names given at the command line

There is a way to suppress the path translation by setting MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 in Windows Git MSys or MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL=”*” in MSYS2. Alternatively, you can set the variable only temporarily just for that command by putting the assignment just before the command itself: MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc.exe -Wall -g \ -Wl,–dynamic-linker=/usr/lib/myrpath/ld-linux.so.3 \ -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib/myrpath \ -I../targetsysroot/usr/include \ myprogram.c -o myprogram