Optlink search directory path containing spaces?

monarch_dodra monarchdodra at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 04:39:09 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 10:41:51 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> This seems kind of strange to me, but when I go to specify a 
> search directory for the linker I can't seem to get it to work 
> for a path that contains spaces.
>
> I tried to put quotes around the switch like I've done for 
> other switches, but when my program goes to link I get some 
> strange errors.
>
> If I use something like "-L+C:\Users\Jeremy\Desktop\Search 
> Directory\" (with the quotes) I get the errors
>
> C:\Users\Jeremy\Desktop\Search.lib
>
>  Warning 2: File Not Found C:\Users\Jeremy\Desktop\Search.lib
>
> Directory.lib
>
>  Warning 2: File Not Found Directory.lib
>
>
> It seems to do the same thing even without the space in the 
> path if I leave the quotes around it. The only way I have 
> gotten it to work is by not using quotes and not having any 
> spaces in the path to the directory I want to have searched. Am 
> I doing something wrong?
>
> Jeremy

Any chance:
-L+"C:\Users\Jeremy\Desktop\Search Directory\"

works?


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