[bug] Path to compiler with spaces when building boost

[sogartar]

Environment details

• Operating System+version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045 Build 19045
• Compiler+version: clang 15
• Conan version: 1.56.0
• Python version: 3.8.6

Steps to reproduce

I am not sure if this error is in Conan or in Boost Jam.
My compiler directory is C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin. It has a space in its path.

I have this profile

[settings]
arch=x86_64
arch_build=x86_64
build_type=Debug
compiler=clang
compiler.version=15
compiler.cppstd=20
os=Windows
os_build=Windows
[options]
[build_requires]
[env]
CONAN_CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja
CC=clang
CXX=clang++
CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja

When I do

conan workspace install ../conan-workspace.yml --build=missing --profile ../conan-clang-debug-profile

I get this error

...
boost/1.81.0: Applying build-requirement: b2/4.9.2
Downloading conan_sources.tgz completed [0.66k]
Decompressing conan_sources.tgz completed [0.00k]
boost/1.81.0: Configuring sources in C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src
Downloading boost_1_81_0.tar.bz2 completed [116013.43k]                                  boost/1.81.0: /1.81.0:
boost/1.81.0:
boost/1.81.0: Apply patch (conan): Fails the build when mpi is not configured
boost/1.81.0: Apply patch (conan): Fails the build when there is no iconv backend
boost/1.81.0: Building your package in C:\.conan\c61a72\1
boost/1.81.0: Generator txt created conanbuildinfo.txt
boost/1.81.0: Calling generate()
boost/1.81.0: Aggregating env generators
boost/1.81.0: Calling build()
boost/1.81.0: WARN: replace_in_file didn't find pattern '/* thread_local */' in 'C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\boost\stacktrace\detail\libbacktrace_impls.hpp' file.
boost/1.81.0: WARN: replace_in_file didn't find pattern '/* static __thread */' in 'C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\boost\stacktrace\detail\libbacktrace_impls.hpp' file.
boost/1.81.0: WARN: replace_in_file didn't find pattern 'local generic-os = [ set.difference $(all-os) : aix darwin vxworks solaris osf hpux ] ;' in 'C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\tools\build\src\tools\gcc.jam' file.boost/1.81.0: WARN: replace_in_file didn't find pattern 'local no-threading = android beos haiku sgi darwin vxworks ;' in 'C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\tools\build\src\tools\gcc.jam' file.
boost/1.81.0: WARN: Patching user-config.jam
boost/1.81.0: WARN: Using the new toolchains and generators without specifying a build profile (e.g: -pr:b=default) is discouraged and might cause failures and unexpected behavior
boost/1.81.0: WARN:
using zlib : 1.2.13 : <include>"C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/zlib/1.2.13/_/_/package/01822c8126f3805e61534fa72215516497c36eb2/include" <search>"C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/zlib/1.2.13/_/_/package/01822c8126f3805e61534fa72215516497c36eb2/lib" <name>zlib ;
using bzip2 : 1.0.8 : <include>"C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/bzip2/1.0.8/_/_/package/664a290ff8a4232d40ea8d66ae4e20ff2cb6ef7b/include" <search>"C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/bzip2/1.0.8/_/_/package/664a290ff8a4232d40ea8d66ae4e20ff2cb6ef7b/lib" <name>bz2 ;
using "clang-win" :  :  C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/clang++.EXE :
 ;
boost/1.81.0: WARN: Using the new toolchains and generators without specifying a build profile (e.g: -pr:b=default) is discouraged and might cause failures and unexpected behavior
ZIP2=0 -sNO_LZMA=1 -sNO_ZSTD=1 boost.locale.icu=off --disable-icu boost.locale.iconv=off --disable-iconv threading=multi visibility=hidden link=static variant=debug --with-atomic --with-chrono --with-container --with-context --with-contract --with-coroutine --with-date_time --with-exception --with-fiber --with-filesystem --with-graph --with-iostreams --with-json --with-locale --with-log --with-math --with-nowide --with-program_options --with-random --with-regex --with-serialization --with-stacktrace --with-system --with-test --with-thread --with-timer --with-type_erasure --with-wave toolset=clang-win cxxflags=-std=c++20 pch=on linkflags="-stdlib=None" cxxflags="-fPIC -stdlib=None" install --prefix=C:\.conan\6876cace\1 -j4 --abbreviate-paths -d0 --debug-configuration --build-dir="C:\.conan\c61a72\1\build-debug"
notice: found boost-build.jam at C:/.conan/5d11a4/1/src/boost-build.jam
notice: loading B2 from C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/kernel/bootstrap.jam
notice: Searching 'C:\Users\sogartary' 'C:\Users\sogartary' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/kernel' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/util' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/build' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/tools' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/contrib' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/.' for site-config configuration file 'site-config.jam'.
notice: Configuration file 'site-config.jam' not found in 'C:\Users\sogartary' 'C:\Users\sogartary' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/kernel' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/util' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/build' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/tools' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/contrib' 'C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/.'.
notice: Loading explicitly specified user configuration file:
    C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\tools\build\user-config.jam
notice: Searching 'C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\tools\build' for user-config configuration file 'user-config.jam'.
notice: Loading user-config configuration file 'user-config.jam' from 'C:/.conan/5d11a4/1/src/tools/build'.
notice: [zlib] Using pre-installed library
notice: [zlib] Condition
notice: [bzip2] Using pre-installed library
notice: [bzip2] Condition
notice: [msvc-cfg] msvc-14.2 detected, command: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30037\bin\Hostx64\x64\cl.exe'
warning: toolset clang-win initialization:
warning: can not find user-provided command 'C:/Program' 'Files/LLVM/bin/clang++.EXE'
warning: initialized from C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\tools\build\user-config.jam:5
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/tools\clang-win.jam:74: in clang-win.init from module clang-win
error: Cannot configure toolset clang-win: no 'clang-cl.exe' command found or given
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/build\toolset.jam:44: in toolset.using from module toolset
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/build\project.jam:1104: in using from module project-rules
C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\tools\build\user-config.jam:5: in modules.load from module user-config
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2\build-system.jam:255: in load-config from module build-system
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2\build-system.jam:449: in load-configuration-files from module build-system
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2\build-system.jam:607: in load from module build-system
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/kernel\modules.jam:294: in import from module modules
C:/Users/sogartary/.conan/data/b2/4.9.2/_/_/package/ca33edce272a279b24f87dc0d4cf5bbdcffbc187/bin/.b2/kernel/bootstrap.jam:135: in module scope from module

The interesting line is

warning: can not find user-provided command 'C:/Program' 'Files/LLVM/bin/clang++.EXE'

It seems that somehow the path got treated as two string.

In C:\.conan\5d11a4\1\src\tools\build\user-config.jam I have this:

...
using "clang-win" :  :  C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/clang++.EXE : 
...

The compiler path is not quoted.

Logs

No response

[memsharded]

Hi @sogartar

Yes, I think this belongs to boost, in this case, it might be workarounded in the Conan recipe in conan-center-index. So I am transferring this issue to the conan-center-index repo.

In any case, please note that in Windows, it is always problematic for many tools to have spaces in paths or with other special characters. I always avoid that installing things in different places than Program Files.

[SpaceIm]

You can try to replace these lines in boost recipe:

        if is_msvc(self):
            contents += f' "{cxx_fwd_slahes}"'
        else:
            contents += f' {cxx_fwd_slahes}'

by

        if cxx_fwd_slahes:
            contents += f' "{cxx_fwd_slahes}"'

Moreover, pay attention that variables defined in [env] are not listened by recipes migrated to conan v2 (they listen [buildenv] or [conf] like tools.build:compiler_executables).

[Ahmed-Alrubaye]

Hi @sogartar, @memsharded and @SpaceIm ,

I'm running almost into the same issue, when I used the gcc compiler, it could detect it but I got this error:
...failed updating 0 target...

Then I modified the "user-config.jam" to use msvc like this:

using msvc : 14.3 : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\bin\Hostx64\x64\cl.exe" ;

when I run conan install, I get this error:

`notice: Loading explicitly specified user configuration file:

    C:\Users\BEALRUBA\.conan2\p\boostc368a989a1b43\s\src\tools\build\user-config.jam
notice: Searching 'C:\Users\BEALRUBA\.conan2\p\boostc368a989a1b43\s\src\tools\build' for user-config configuration file 'user-config.jam'.

notice: Loading user-config configuration file 'user-config.jam' from 'C:/Users/BEALRUBA/.conan2/p/boostc368a989a1b43/s/src/tools/build'.

notice: [zlib] Using pre-installed library 

notice: [zlib] Condition 

notice: [bzip2] Using pre-installed library

notice: [bzip2] Condition

[errno 2] Visual Studio.jam (No such file or directory)`

The issue is, it overwrites the user-config.jam and it doesn't detect the msvc that I added. How can I fix that please?

[memsharded]

Hi @Ahmed-Alrubaye

This ticket was solved and closed, so if there is any new issue it would be necessary to create a new ticket with updated details:

• Exact Conan version, platform, os, compiler, etc
• The exact starting point, it is the recipe from conan-center-index? Where did you do that change
• The exact changes you did to the recipe
• The exact command you did to create the package
• The full output

Thanks!