[Issue 16677] -L flag ignores quotes in the arguments passed to the linker

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16677

kinke <kinke at gmx.net> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from kinke <kinke at gmx.net> ---
This seems to be a DMD bug when building the linker cmdline on Windows, at
least for link.exe - it simply doesn't do any quoting and writes the linker
flag directly into the cmdline string. On POSIX, an arguments array is used.

POSIX:

$ dmd '-Labc def' foo.d
/usr/bin/ld: error: cannot open abc def: No such file or directory

Windows:

dmd "-Labc def" -m64 foo.d
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'abc.obj'

[The current way to make it work is an extremely ugly `dmd "-L\"abc def\"" -m64
foo.d`.]

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