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Scratch that non-working suggestion.

Here's the one I've used in the past, that uses `~NUMBER` to stay within the 8.3 filename rule of older Windows.
https://superuser.com/a/743627

Actual: "E:\Program Files\Java\Eclipse\eclipse.exe"
shorter: "E:\Progra~1\Java\Eclipse\eclipse.exe"

The `1` resolves ambiguities if there are more than one entry that begin with the characters before the `~`.  In this case, use the first possibility.

Pete


On 9/10/2023 11:59 AM, Pete Jemian wrote:

Can you replace a single blank space with %20?

On 9/10/2023 11:57 AM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk wrote:

I have a questions about the build system on Windows when directory names contain space characters.

I have a vendor library in “C:\BitFlow SDK 6.5”.  It contains Include/ and Lib64/ directories.  I want to build my application using the files in those directories.

My application Makefile contains lines like:

USR_INCLUDES += -I$(BITFLOW_SDK_INCLUDE)

PROD_LIBS_WIN32 += BFGTLUtil

USR_LDFLAGS_WIN32 += /LIBPATH:$(BITFLOW_SDK_LIB)

I created CONFIG_SITE.windows-x64-static.Common with these lines:

BITFLOW_SDK_INCLUDE = “C:/BitFlow SDK 6.5/Include”

BITFLOW_SDK_LIB     = “C:/BitFlow SDK 6.5/Lib64”

That does not work because of the embedded spaces in the folder name.  I also tried this:

BITFLOW_SDK_INCLUDE = “C:/BitFlow\ SDK\ 6.5/Include”

BITFLOW_SDK_LIB     = “C:/BitFlow\ SDK\ 6.5/Lib64”

Is there a way to make it work when the folder name contains space characters?

I ended up renaming the vendor directory to replace spaces with underscores.  I also had to remove the quotation marks in the CONFIG_SITE file.

BITFLOW_SDK_INCLUDE = C:/BitFlow_SDK_6.5/Include

BITFLOW_SDK_LIB     = C:/BitFlow_SDK_6.5/Lib64

Thanks,

Mark

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