Unable to cope with space in windows username

Describe the bug My username on my PC is “Ryan Kelly” when I attempt to run cdk synth I get the following error

Unhandled Exception: Amazon.JSII.Runtime.JsiiException: Child process exited unexpectedly: internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:584
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\Ryan'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:582:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:508:25)

C:\source\hg\sentric-rights-serverless\infra\cdk>cdk synth

Unhandled Exception: Amazon.JSII.Runtime.JsiiException: Child process exited unexpectedly: internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:584
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\Ryan'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:582:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:508:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:754:12)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)

   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.Services.Runtime.ReadResponse()
   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.Services.Client.ReceiveResponse[TResponse]()
   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.Services.ServiceContainer.BuildServiceProvider(ILoggerFactory loggerFactoryOverride)
   at System.Lazy`1.ViaFactory(LazyThreadSafetyMode mode)
   at System.Lazy`1.ExecutionAndPublication(LazyHelper executionAndPublication, Boolean useDefaultConstructor)
   at System.Lazy`1.CreateValue()
   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.Deputy.JsiiTypeAttributeBase.Load(Assembly assembly)
   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.Deputy.JsiiTypeAttributeBase.Load(Assembly assembly)
   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.Deputy.JsiiClassAttribute..ctor(Type nativeType, String fullyQualifiedName, String parametersJson)
   at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute._CreateCaObject(RuntimeModule pModule, IRuntimeMethodInfo pCtor, Byte** ppBlob, Byte* pEndBlob, Int32* pcNamedArgs)
   at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.CreateCaObject(RuntimeModule module, IRuntimeMethodInfo ctor, IntPtr& blob, IntPtr blobEnd, Int32& namedArgs)
   at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeModule decoratedModule, Int32 decoratedMetadataToken, Int32 pcaCount, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, IList derivedAttributes)
   at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeType type, RuntimeType caType, Boolean inherit)
   at System.Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(MemberInfo element, Type type, Boolean inherit)
   at System.Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(MemberInfo element, Type attributeType, Boolean inherit)
   at System.Reflection.CustomAttributeExtensions.GetCustomAttribute[T](MemberInfo element)
   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.ReflectionUtils.GetClassAttribute(Type type)
   at Amazon.JSII.Runtime.Deputy.DeputyBase..ctor(DeputyProps props)
   at HelloCdk.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\source\hg\sentric-rights-serverless\infra\cdk\src\HelloCdk\Program.cs:line 12
Subprocess exited with error 3762504530

To Reproduce cdk init --language csharp dotnet build src cdk synth

Expected behavior Be able to run cdk synth to generate the CloudFormation template

Version:

• OS Windows 10
• Programming Language C#
• CDK Version 0.31.0 (build 7a70c08)

[olmelabs]

I was able to workaround it by temporary setting TEMP and TMP environment variables to “C:\temp”, so it is not going into my profile folder.

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