In Windows 10 and using rakubrew I found the behavior indeed depends of the build environment used.
(rakubrew can download some prebuild versions, all compiled with MS tools)

With a raku built with MS tools the arguments remains unexpanded as expected:

C:\moar-2020.05.1\bin>raku -e "say @*ARGS.join: ' ';" abc * def
abc * def

C:\moar-2020.05.1\bin>raku -e "say $*VM.config<cc ldlibs>"
(cl  shell32.lib ws2_32.lib mswsock.lib rpcrt4.lib advapi32.lib psapi.
+lib iphlpapi.lib userenv.lib user32.lib)

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When built with mingw tools (from Strawberry perl) the resulting raku expands:

C:\moar-2020.05\install\bin>raku -e "say @*ARGS.join: ' ';" abc * def
abc libmoar.dll.a moar.dll moar.exe nqp-m.exe nqp.exe perl6-debug-m.ex
+e perl6-debug.exe perl6-m.exe perl6.exe raku-debug.exe raku.exe rakud
+o-debug-m.exe rakudo-debug.exe rakudo-m.exe rakudo.exe def

C:\moar-2020.05\install\bin>raku -e "say $*VM.config<cc ldlibs>"
(gcc  -lshell32 -lws2_32 -lmswsock -lrpcrt4 -ladvapi32 -lpsapi -liphlp
+api -luserenv -luser32)

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As the linked libraries are the same, I can only think in some differences in the startup code injected by the build environment.

In reply to Re: [Raku] Asterisk on DOS command line by sortiz
in thread [Raku] Asterisk on DOS command line by Athanasius

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