[issue4508] distutils compiler not handling spaces in path to output/src files

[Greg Toombs]

Greg Toombs <gtoombs at lakeheadu.ca> added the comment:

Confirmed still broken in 3.6.3.

I ran into this when running CFFI. It does very wrong things with the path to cl.exe and include files with path spaces.

My workaround is to monkeypatch distutils.ccompiler.gen_preprocess_options such that include paths are formed as -I"path" and not -Ipath; and to monkeypatch distutils.spawn._nt_quote_args so that it leaves all of the arguments unquoted except the first arg (path to cl.exe), which I only got working by using tilde-mangled short names.

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nosy: +Greg Toombs
versions: +Python 3.6

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