diff --git a/components/app_trace/project_include.cmake b/components/app_trace/project_include.cmake
index ab30ff0ed6..dff23a0434 100644
--- a/components/app_trace/project_include.cmake
+++ b/components/app_trace/project_include.cmake
@@ -5,21 +5,25 @@ function(idf_create_coverage_report report_dir)
     set(gcov_tool ${_CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX}gcov)
     idf_build_get_property(project_name PROJECT_NAME)
 
+    file(TO_NATIVE_PATH "${report_dir}" _report_dir)
+    file(TO_NATIVE_PATH "${project_dir}" _project_dir)
+    file(TO_NATIVE_PATH "${report_dir}/html/index.html" _index_path)
+
     add_custom_target(pre-cov-report
-        COMMENT "Generating coverage report in: ${report_dir}"
+        COMMENT "Generating coverage report in: ${_report_dir}"
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "Using gcov: ${gcov_tool}"
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${report_dir}/html
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${_report_dir}/html
         )
 
     add_custom_target(lcov-report
         COMMENT "WARNING: lcov-report is deprecated. Please use gcovr-report instead."
-        COMMAND lcov --gcov-tool ${gcov_tool} -c -d ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} -o ${report_dir}/${project_name}.info
-        COMMAND genhtml -o ${report_dir}/html ${report_dir}/${project_name}.info
+        COMMAND lcov --gcov-tool ${gcov_tool} -c -d ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} -o ${_report_dir}/${project_name}.info
+        COMMAND genhtml -o ${_report_dir}/html ${_report_dir}/${project_name}.info
         DEPENDS pre-cov-report
         )
 
     add_custom_target(gcovr-report
-        COMMAND gcovr -r ${project_dir} --gcov-executable ${gcov_tool} -s --html-details ${report_dir}/html/index.html
+        COMMAND gcovr -r ${_project_dir} --gcov-executable ${gcov_tool} -s --html-details ${_index_path}
         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
         DEPENDS pre-cov-report
         )
@@ -29,7 +33,9 @@ endfunction()
 #
 # Clean coverage report.
 function(idf_clean_coverage_report report_dir)
+    file(TO_CMAKE_PATH "${report_dir}" _report_dir)
+
     add_custom_target(cov-data-clean
-        COMMENT "Clean coverage report in: ${report_dir}"
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E remove_directory ${report_dir})
+        COMMENT "Clean coverage report in: ${_report_dir}"
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E remove_directory ${_report_dir})
 endfunction()
diff --git a/examples/system/gcov/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/system/gcov/CMakeLists.txt
index a94065a4f3..cd5ed13608 100644
--- a/examples/system/gcov/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/system/gcov/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 # in this exact order for cmake to work correctly
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
-include($ENV{IDF_PATH}/tools/cmake/project.cmake)
+file(TO_NATIVE_PATH "$ENV{IDF_PATH}/tools/cmake/project.cmake" _project_path)
+
+include(${_project_path})
 project(gcov_example)
 
-idf_create_coverage_report(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/coverage_report)
-idf_clean_coverage_report(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/coverage_report)
+file(TO_NATIVE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/coverage_report" _coverage_path)
+
+idf_create_coverage_report(${_coverage_path})
+idf_clean_coverage_report(${_coverage_path})