C1xx: fatal error C1083 because of spaces in file path (while building Qt 4.8 for MS VS)

Question

I'm trying to build Qt 4.8.6 for MS Visual Studio 2015 following this instruction by trig-ger. On the stage #5 (configure) I've got multiple errors c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file", related to spaces in file pathD:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0`:

Files
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Files: No such file or directory
Microsoft
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: (x86)\Microsoft: No such file or directory
Visual
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Visual: No such file or directory
Studio
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Studio: No such file or directory
include
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 14.0\VC\include: No such file or directory
Files
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Files: No such file or directory
Microsoft
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: (x86)\Microsoft: No such file or directory
Visual
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Visual: No such file or directory
Studio
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Studio: No such file or directory
QtCore
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 14.0\VC\include\QtCore: No such file or directory
Files
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Files: No such file or directory
Microsoft
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: (x86)\Microsoft: No such file or directory
Visual
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Visual: No such file or directory
Studio
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Studio: No such file or directory
global
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 14.0\VC\src\corelib\global: No such file or directory
Files
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Files: No such file or directory
Microsoft
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: (x86)\Microsoft: No such file or directory
Visual
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Visual: No such file or directory
Studio
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: Studio: No such file or directory
xml
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 14.0\VC\src\corelib\xml: No such file or directory

Here is my configure command:

D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC>D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\configure -make nmake -platform win32-msvc2015 -prefix D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015 -opensource -confirm-license -opengl desktop -nomake examples -nomake tests

Do you have any ideas how I can fix this problem? I don't know if this is a typical Qt's problem with spaces in file path (caused by configure) or error related to Visual Studio (caused by c1xx).

Upd. I changed command line root directory to just D:> and run configure again. It started work at last (header created for [...]) but eventually produced another error after Creating qmake.... At first I got multiple lines such as:

cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type 'SOURCE_PATH', object file assumed
cl : Command line warning D9027 : source file 'SOURCE_PATH' ignored
cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type '=', object file assumed
cl : Command line warning D9027 : source file '=' ignored
cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type 'D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\src\corelib\xml', object file assumed
cl : Command line warning D9027 : source file 'D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\src\corelib\xml' ignored

And finally:

SOURCE_PATH
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: SOURCE_PATH: No such file or directory
=
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: =: No such file or directory
include
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\include: No such file or directory
SOURCE_PATH
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: SOURCE_PATH: No such file or directory
=
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: =: No such file or directory
QtCore
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\include\QtCore: No such file or directory
SOURCE_PATH
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: SOURCE_PATH: No such file or directory
=
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: =: No such file or directory
global
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\src\corelib\global: No such file or directory
SOURCE_PATH
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: SOURCE_PATH: No such file or directory
=
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: =: No such file or directory
xml
c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\src\corelib\xml: No such file or directory

Answer 1

For me it was setting an env var CL to the path of the exe. This is not a great idea.

Answer 2

I solved the problem by switching command line root directory. Instead of

D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC>D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\configure [options]

or

D:>Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6\configure [options]

it should be just

D:\Soft\Qt\4.8\msvc2015\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6>configure [options]