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> And good luck if your user name (and hence home directory) has a space in it, which it very well might if you're on Windows. I went to great lengths on my re
by efreak 6y ago
> And good luck if your user name (and hence home directory) has a space in it, which it very well might if you're on Windows.
I went to great lengths on my recent Windows install to ensure my user profile, which has my real name in it, uses `efreak` as the name for my home folder specifically to deal with software that hates having spaces in filenames. There might well be a way to specify this in Windows, but I'm not aware of it. Instead, I had to recreate my user profile 3 times due to Microsoft syncing; first it wanted 'first last', then it wanted my Microsoft account name. I don't recall how I got it working finally; I may have renamed the account before signing into sync (it keeps my desktop environments together across several computers). Using 8.3 filenames can help too, but that requires remembering what they are.
If you've only got a single folder in the path that has a space in it, then I've had success using symlinks (or junction points on windows, since explorer recognizes those and doesn't recognize symlinks as such). Just create a folder c:\mounts or ~/symlinks to work with.
And god forbid you ever have to work with the qt build environment in Windows, extracting and deleting the source each take like 10 minutes on my ssd... I really wish it was distributed as a vhd file, or that I could convert it to one easily.