Unable to use Pelles C on Windows with non-standard username

[soullessmate]

Hi,
I've installed Pelles C however it can't compile my file because my Windows username is $. The file is not found.
Does $ have a special meaning in the Pelles C IDE?

[iwrbc]

Hi, a few questions: which error message do you get? At which moment? How do you know the problem is in your username?
That makes it easier to help.

[soullessmate]

After trying to Execute main.exe
In that in the Project tab:

Building main.obj.
fatal error #1061: Can't open input file 'C:\Users\Documents\Pelles C Projects\Hello World\main.c'.
*** Error code: 1 ***
Done.

Where it should be C:\Users\$\Documents\...

[bitcoin]

Copy to the root dir and test (C:\code or C:\PellesC )

[John Z]

Hi,
I've installed Pelles C however it can't compile my file because my Windows username is $. The file is not found.
Does $ have a special meaning in the Pelles C IDE?

Well it is not that it is a username but it is because of the directory named $.  Running PellesC v10 in Windows 10 64bit, with a known good program under "Program Files/PellesC/Files/$/Hello_PopUp/"  'appears to compile and produce an output, however no object file or exe is produced.  Change the dir named $ to A so the path is now  "Program Files/PellesC/Files/A/Hello_PopUp/" and everything works fine.

I don't know if it PellesC or windows command processor.  PellesC does show the full correct path when hovering over the executable name in the source files pane.  If the project has already been built (like when I used the A path) then changing to $ the project is not rebuilt, but the prior exe will run when using Pelles execute.  So at least parts of PellesC are not bothered by the $.  Pelles Clean works too.... Pelles Compile appears to work but no object file is created.  Same for Build. 

Personally, I keep as much as possible out of c:\Users\......

John Z