QtCreator on Windows--Directory names with spaces

[davethomaspilot]

I've used VS2010 with the Qt addin for doing developing Qt applications on Windows. But, after using QtCreator for some embedded Linux development, I've decided I prefer it to Visual Studio (for Qt work).

So, I tried rebuilding a 4.8 application using QtCreator. But, QtCreator seems to have problems building from a directory that's named something like:

Users/Dave/My Software

Is that a limitation, or is there a setting/easy workaround?

Thanks!

[Lesiok]

All names with spaces must be taken in apostrophes ". In example like this :

LIBS += "$$MylibDir/$$LIBVARIANT/libmylib.a" \
    "$$QExtserialportDir/libqextserialport.a"

LIBS += "$$MylibDir/$$LIBVARIANT/libmylib.a" \
    "$$QExtserialportDir/libqextserialport.a"

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This is not a Qt problem but normal symptom on Windows, Linux and other systems.

[davethomaspilot]

here's nothing in the .pro file that has spaces.

It's in QtCreator itself--the .pro file sits in a directory with spaces. So, I think it is indeed a Qt Creator problem.

Also, it works fine if I just move to a directory which has no spaces in its path---which is the obvious workaround.

But, when in Windows, (if its easy) I'd prefer to work in more Windows standard folder names, like "My Documents", etc.

If that's possible (and easy) with QtCreator, I'd prefer to do that. Otherwise, I'll just create a special place on windows for sandboxes that will be used with QtCreator. (Not a big deal, but I thought I'd ask)