[Bug]: Build Path Handling Fails Due to Unescaped Characters

[0xfedcafe]

OpenVINO Version

Master Branch

Operating System

macOS Systems for Apple Silicon

Device used for inference

CPU

Framework

None

Model used

No response

Issue description

The build system fails to handle special characters in the build path correctly, such as + or ;, leading to compilation errors. This issue occurs because these characters are not properly escaped, causing cmake to misinterpret the path as invalid or malformed.

Step-by-step reproduction

• Create a directory with special characters in its name, e.g., c++/openvino
• Attempt to build the project located in this directory using cmake.
• Observe that the build process fails with a compilation error related to the unescaped characters.

Relevant log output

RegularExpression::compile(): Nested *?+.
RegularExpression::compile(): Error in compile.
CMake Error at cmake/developer_package/download/dependency_solver.cmake:55 (if):
  if given arguments:

    ";FOLDER;ARCHIVE;ARCHIVE_UNIFIED;ARCHIVE_WIN;ARCHIVE_LIN;ARCHIVE_MAC;ARCHIVE_ANDROID;TARGET_PATH;ENVIRONMENT;VERSION_REGEX;SHA256;FILES_TO_EXTRACT;USE_NEW_LOCATION;" "MATCHES" ";/Users/user/work/c++/openvino/temp/tbb;"

  Regular expression ";/Users/user/work/c++/openvino/temp/tbb;" cannot
  compile
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/dependencies.cmake:158 (RESOLVE_DEPENDENCY)
  src/cmake/ov_parallel.cmake:177 (ov_download_tbb)
  src/cmake/install_tbb.cmake:8 (ov_find_package_tbb)
  src/CMakeLists.txt:15 (include)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

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[ilya-lavrenov]

Hi @0xfedcafe
What cmake version do you use?

As an alternative solution to original issue, you can install TBB via brew brew install tbb and run OpenVINO's cmake with extra option cmake -DENABLE_SYSTEM_TBB=ON

[0xfedcafe]

Hi @0xfedcafe What cmake version do you use?

As an alternative solution to original issue, you can install TBB via brew brew install tbb and run OpenVINO's cmake with extra option cmake -DENABLE_SYSTEM_TBB=ON

CMAKE_VERSION ......................... 3.31.3

I just renamed parent folder to cpp instead of c++ and it worked 😊