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Spaces in Windows User name not supported in Inspect

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#5,180 opened on Jun 19, 2025

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Description

When I run INSPECT on workspace with a path containing spaces (in my case my username), it's truncated and results in two warnings.

Error: Checking lpc1768 > cppcheck (platform: nxplpc; board: lpc1768; framework: mbed)
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Warning: Failed to extract toolchain defines!

'C:\Users\Wim' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Warning: Failed to extract toolchain defines!

'C:\Users\Wim' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

The rest of the output after these lines are correctly handling the spaces in the path.

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Investigate how the Inspect tool constructs command lines on Windows and ensure paths with spaces are properly quoted.
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