In the early 2k's I discovered that it was impossible to quote or escape spaces in filepaths in a makefile. I naively reported it to the Make maintainer as a bug.

The maintainer responded by saying, basically, that the behavior was deeply baked in and was not going to change.

Try finding out which registry key you need to edit to get something to happen.

Some things across different systems have pitfalls as a result of their implementation, or some features have pitfalls. There are half a dozen things I can point to on windows that are worse than the "spaces in filenames". Hell, windows doesn't even support ISO 8601 dates, or times to be properly placed in files. It restricts symbols much more than Linux / Unix