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I just had a fun debug session to figure out why shiboken failed to run on a new machine I was setting up. Turns out the problem was using a Qt installation with a somewhat longer file path which then lead to the `shiboken` command overflowing the windows cmd line length yielding this confusing error:
shiboken: "||" does not exist.
looking at the cmake generated .bat file we can see that on the broken system, the line length is much larger than the maximum imposed by microsoft, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/shell-experience/command-line-string-limitation
this will require a mode similar to qmake and other tools to allow passing arguments by file instead of directly on the command line to workaround the windows system limitations.
here's the cmake generated .bat line that's failing in case of doubt:
C:\projects\qitissue\build\3rdParty\PySide2\sources\shiboken2\generator\shiboken2 --generator-set=shiboken --enable-parent-ctor-heuristic --enable-pyside-extensions --enable-return-value-heuristic --use-isnull-as-nb_nonzero -std=c++17 --avoid-protected-hack C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/qitissue/qitissue_global.h 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--typesystem-paths=C:/projects/qitissue/Python\;C:/projects/qitissue/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/templates/\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/cache\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/features\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/io\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtGui/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtCore/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/pipeline\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/io\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtGui/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtCore/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/data\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/io\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtGui/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtCore/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/features\;C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/io\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtGui/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtCore/PySide2/typesystems/\;C:/projects/qitissue/build/3rdParty/PySide2/sources/pyside2/PySide2/QtWidgets/PySide2/typesystems/ --output-directory=C:/projects/qitissue/build/Python/KDAB/qitissue C:/projects/qitissue/Python/KDAB/qitissue/typesystem_qitissue.xml --api-version=5.15.2 || (set FAIL_LINE=4& goto :ABORT)