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

Sorry for necroing this, but I had a similar problem and I was able to fix it using cygpath.

For my case I was trying to make an environment variable to visual studio:

export DEVENV="/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/Common7/IDE/devenv.com
echo $DEVENV
$DEVENV $1 /build "Release|win64"

Which would result in:

/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/Common7/IDE/devenv.com
-bash: /c/Program: No such file or directory

The solution was to use cygpath -w to convert the path with spaces into an 8.3 filename:

export DEVENV=$(cygpath -w -s "/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/Common7/IDE/devenv.com")
echo $DEVENV
$DEVENV $1 /build "Release|win64"

Which results in:

C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\2019\COMMUN~1\Common7\IDE\devenv.com

and no error. Hopefully this helps future travellers.