[Qt-interest] Qt fails to compile only because of whitespace in path

[Michael Jackson]

On 12/30/09 10:17 AM, in article 4B3B6EF0.7090804 at gmx.de, "Matthias
Pospiech" wrote:

> Error:
> 
> #NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\Program'
> #Stop.
> #Building qmake failed, return code 2
> #
> #C:\Program Files\Qt\msvc\2005\4.6.0>
> 
> 
> Is this seriously a problem, because that would mean that I have to move
> Qt outside of the 'Program Files' folder just because it
> fails because of the path? In WinXP that was not a problem because the
> german word is without a whitespace ('Programme').
> 
> Is this always a problem when I want to compile qmake based projects?
> 
> Matthias

Yes, that is a problem. I think most devs just install Qt into C:\qt or
somewhere else without any spaces in the file path. These sorts of things
are also issues on other operating systems, so you are not alone.

Sorry
Mike Jackson