Adding linker paths with spaces using dmd and msvc toolchain

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 30 December 2016 at 21:51:32 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 30.12.2016 19:24, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 December 2016 at 04:56:59 UTC, Jerry wrote:
>>> On Friday, 30 December 2016 at 03:51:13 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Does this happen on other platforms too? There has to be a 
>> GOOD way to
>> pass a linker path that has spaces. Should this be considered 
>> as a bug?
>>
>>
>
> Not sure if it qualifies as "GOOD", but this works:
>
> dmd -m64 "-L/LIBPATH:\"path with spaces\"" main.d

Well, it's probably as good as it's going to get without dmd 
looking for this specifically or having something added. Thanks.