NRF52832 GCC Makefile help

Question

Hello. 
 I'm using a nrf52 dk (nrf52832) + GCC 9.2.1 (9 2019 q4 major) + WIN10 + CLION and I'm trying to build an example project using GCC. 
 I get the following error:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\make.exe" --just-print --print-directory --keep-going all Cannot find: "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Tools ARM Embedded/9 2019-q4-major/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc". process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, "", ...) failed. ../NRF52_SDK/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.common:130: *** Cannot continue. Stop. Please set values in: "B:/WORK_DEV/NRF52_SDK/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.windows" according to the actual configuration of your system. make: Entering directory `B:/WORK_DEV/RELAY' make: Leaving directory `B:/WORK_DEV/RELAY' 
 Process finished with exit code 2 Make execution failed with exit code = 2

Which is weird, because, firing up cmd and inputing the same "cannot find" command, yields

C:\Users\Master>"C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Tools ARM Embedded/9 2019-q4-major/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc" arm-none-eabi-gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated.

(however, "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Tools ARM Embedded/9 2019-q4-major/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc" --version = Access is denied ?!) 
 Anyway, I noticed that in the Makefile.common, the quote macro replaces , with single quotes. I modified it to include double quotes (for paths with spaces, on windows). 
 As per your documentation, I set the compiler location in Makefile.windows 
 GNU_INSTALL_ROOT := C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Tools ARM Embedded/9 2019-q4-major/bin/
GNU_VERSION := 9.2.1
GNU_PREFIX := arm-none-eabi
SHELL := cmd.exe 
 but still no dice. 
 Thank you for your time. 
 UPDATE: 
 "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU Tools ARM Embedded/9 2019-q4-major/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc" --version 
 now returns 9.2.1, instead of Access denied. It was a windows defender issue (switched it off). 
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