From 94030131de8053718db1dcc6b67a8df14220562f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:27:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] filesystem: Windows SDL_SYS_CreateDirectory should succeed if
 dir exists.

---
 src/filesystem/windows/SDL_sysfsops.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/filesystem/windows/SDL_sysfsops.c b/src/filesystem/windows/SDL_sysfsops.c
index f3210648d9..da700d5247 100644
--- a/src/filesystem/windows/SDL_sysfsops.c
+++ b/src/filesystem/windows/SDL_sysfsops.c
@@ -167,7 +167,16 @@ bool SDL_SYS_CreateDirectory(const char *path)
         return false;
     }
 
-    const DWORD rc = CreateDirectoryW(wpath, NULL);
+    DWORD rc = CreateDirectoryW(wpath, NULL);
+    if (!rc && (GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS)) {
+        WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA winstat;
+        if (GetFileAttributesExW(wpath, GetFileExInfoStandard, &winstat)) {
+            if (winstat.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) {
+                rc = 1;  // exists and is already a directory: cool.
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     SDL_free(wpath);
     if (!rc) {
         return WIN_SetError("Couldn't create directory");