From c5b3fdc615cd2d81fecd5c737267f8155af7fd45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Mazzoleni <amadvance@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 08:14:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] In Windows readlink now convert \ to / to match symlink
 behaviour

---
 cmdline/mingw.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmdline/mingw.c b/cmdline/mingw.c
index 7b0c6e57..77e02930 100644
--- a/cmdline/mingw.c
+++ b/cmdline/mingw.c
@@ -1916,6 +1916,12 @@ int windows_readlink(const char* file, char* buffer, size_t size)
 
 	memcpy(buffer, name, len);
 
+	/* convert any \ to / */
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
+		if (buffer[i] == '\\')
+			buffer[i] = '/';
+	}
+
 	return len;
 }