Adding linker paths with spaces using dmd and msvc toolchain

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 30 December 2016 at 03:51:13 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> I have a path to where some .libs are, and this path has some 
> spaces in it. Using dmd and the msvc toolchain, I only seem to 
> be able to correctly link .lib files if I pass them to the 
> compiler with their full paths, or if I give the linker a 
> relative path.
>
> When I add -L/LIBPATH:"path" to the command line, it ends up 
> looking like this:
> -L/LIBPATH:"C:\Users\Jeremy DeHaan\Desktop\CODE\dsfml\lib".
>
> The linker will complain that it cannot open input file 
> 'DeHaan\Desktop\CODE\dsfml\lib.obj'.
>
> How does one correctly add a linker path that has spaces?

The quotes get consumed by the command line. The way DMD spawns 
the linker by creating a new string with all the flags. So it 
smashes everything into a new string, ignoring how the string was 
passed into DMD. I think you can use triple quotes, """string 
with space""", and it should make the string passed to DMD 
include the string. Might be different for powershell.