def _search_windows_special_cases(self, name: str, command: T.Optional[str], exclude_paths: T.Optional[T.List[str]]) -> T.List[T.Optional[str]]:
        '''
        Lots of weird Windows quirks:
        1. PATH search for @name returns files with extensions from PATHEXT,
           but only self.windows_exts are executable without an interpreter.
        2. @name might be an absolute path to an executable, but without the
           extension. This works inside MinGW so people use it a lot.
        3. The script is specified without an extension, in which case we have
           to manually search in PATH.
        4. More special-casing for the shebang inside the script.
        '''
        if command:
            # On Windows, even if the PATH search returned a full path, we can't be
            # sure that it can be run directly if it's not a native executable.
            # For instance, interpreted scripts sometimes need to be run explicitly
            # with an interpreter if the file association is not done properly.
            name_ext = os.path.splitext(command)[1]
            if name_ext[1:].lower() in self.windows_exts:
                # Good, it can be directly executed
                return [command]
            # Try to extract the interpreter from the shebang
            commands = self._shebang_to_cmd(command)
            if commands:
                return commands
            return [None]
        # Maybe the name is an absolute path to a native Windows
        # executable, but without the extension. This is technically wrong,
        # but many people do it because it works in the MinGW shell.
        if os.path.isabs(name):
            for ext in self.windows_exts:
                command = f'{name}.{ext}'
                if os.path.exists(command):
                    return [command]
        # On Windows, interpreted scripts must have an extension otherwise they
        # cannot be found by a standard PATH search. So we do a custom search
        # where we manually search for a script with a shebang in PATH.
        search_dirs = OrderedSet(self._windows_sanitize_path(os.environ.get('PATH', '')).split(';'))
        if exclude_paths:
            search_dirs.difference_update(exclude_paths)
        for search_dir in search_dirs:
            commands = self._search_dir(name, search_dir)
            if commands:
                return commands
        return [None]

        Lots of weird Windows quirks:
        1. PATH search for @name returns files with extensions from PATHEXT,
           but only self.windows_exts are executable without an interpreter.
        2. @name might be an absolute path to an executable, but without the
           extension. This works inside MinGW so people use it a lot.
        3. The script is specified without an extension, in which case we have
           to manually search in PATH.
        4. More special-casing for the shebang inside the script.
        
mesonbuild/programs.py