Project will not build because of space in build path

[atotalnoob]

System information

• OS version/distro: Windows 10 Home
• .NET Version (eg., dotnet --info): 2.1.200, concerning ML .net V0.1.0

Issue

• What did you do? Try to build from source
• What happened? When trying to build, I have a space in my user profile, for example let's say "John Smith". So when I cloned to C:/users/John Smith/source/repo/machinelearning/ and tried to build using a command prompt (in the before directory) using command start build.cmd -Release -TargetArchitecture:x64

Another window opened (expected) and it said 'C:\Users\John' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Moving the folder up to C:/ it builds just fine.

• What did you expect? To build

Source code / logs

Its probably caused by %~dp0 in the build.cmd file.

[danmoseley]

@atotalnoob I'm surprised this wasn't reported in older repos like CoreFX that seem to have the same issue. But this requires both that you have a space in your profile and you clone your repo into your user profile.

Could you try putting quotes around the %~dp0... in build.cmd, run.cmd, and native\build.cmd and see whether that is enough?