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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