Thanks Volker you are awesome!
After reading resources you've mentioned and doing some research I became
able to set short name for "Micrisoft Visual Studio" directory using:
`fsutil file setshortname "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio"
msvs`, without even enabling 8dot3name globally.
Hi Alireza,
sorry if my answer (and especially the link which I provided) have been
unclear. You don’t have to create any junctions. You just have to enable
short (i.e. „8.3“ filenames) for the drive /directory where you have
installed Visual Studio. Afterwards you must copy “microsoft visual
Hi Volker, gratitude for answering my question.
After reading Q link you provided I realized how to make junctions but I
don't know which source should be attached to the target?
As you've mentioned `:/cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft: No such file or
directory` means there are no links available for
Hi Alireza,
it seems you don’t have short file names enabled for the “Program Files”
directory. Notice that you have short file names enabled for “c:\” (i.e.
you have “progra~2”).
You have to first enable short file names for the “Program Files” directory
(see for example
Hi. I wanted to build OpenJDK in windows using cygwin, and I set VC
compiler path, but due to whitespaces in the path I can't build, with the
following error:
```
configure: Rewriting CC to "/cygdrive/c/progra~2/microsoft visual
studio/2017/community/vc/tools/msvc/14.13.26128/bin/hostx86/x64/cl"
