Where is "mysqld-auto.cnf" located? (MySQL)

Question

I use MySQL on Windows. At the moment, I'm looking for "mysqld-auto.cnf" to check persisted system variables but I couldn't find it.

Actually, I could find "my.ini" whose path is as shown below and I know that for Windows, "my.ini" is used instead of "my.cnf".

C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\my.ini

My questions:

1. For Windows, is other equivalent file used instead of "mysqld-auto.cnf" like "my.cnf" and "my.ini"?

2. Where is "mysqld-auto.cnf" located on Windows?

Answer 1

On Windows, "mysqld-auto.cnf" is located at the path below and as you already noticed, the same file name "mysqld-auto.cnf" is also used for Windows different from "my.cnf" and "my.ini":

C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\Data\mysqld-auto.cnf