mingw make can't handle spaces in path?

Question

I am trying to compile code, the makefile created using qmake. When I run mingw32-make I get the following error:

cd bzip2-1.0.5\\ && c:\\QtSDK\\Desk         


        

Answer 1

Not sure if this helpful or not (in fear of being downvoted), but I created a semantic link in order to avoid paths with spaces. Not sure if it will solve the problem since in my scenario it displayed a different error after I used the semantic link relating to pthreads which I still haven't been able to fix.

Creating semantic link using the command prompt:

mklink /j "C:\newshortcut" "C:\Program Files\Directory with spaces"

Then on the command you want to run, you use C:\newshortcut