How do I specify linker arguments with spaces, single and double quotes?

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1

I’m trying to set a linker flag for VisualCpp which gradle escaped with quotes:

apply plugin: 'cpp-lib'
libraries {
    main {
        binaries.all {
            if (toolChain in VisualCpp) {
                linkerArgs <funny arg>
            }
        }
    }
}

The funny arg is: linkerArgs ‘/MANIFESTUAC:“level=‘asInvoker’ uiAccess=‘false’”’ or see http://pastebin.com/3XWupFPN for the full text.

This end up in the compiler-options.txt as: “/MANIFESTUAC:“level=‘asInvoker’ uiAccess=‘false’”” and causes the linker to fail.

2

What exactly do you want to be passed on the command line to link.exe? What would be the correct value in the link.exe options file?

3

I think the correct value would be:

/MANIFESTUAC:“level=‘asInvoker’ uiAccess=‘false’”

The problem is that gradle adds quotes around it which confuses the linker.

4

I’m going over what Visual Studio says it is passing on the command line to the linker. Thought I would try and keep the difference between what gradle passes to the linker and what Visual Studio pass to a minimum.

5

Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I don’t think there’s a workaround at present. I’ve raised GRADLE-2943 to track this issue.

6

I’ve added support for escaping backslashes and double quotes in user args. Unfortunately this doesn’t quite work for linker args in Visual Studio. You’ll need to supply the argument as:

linker.args "/MANIFESTUAC:level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false'"

Gradle will quote the entire argument, so the internal double quotes are not necessary.