From 67b372c1945483f27060a5b66343e7c671f7e75c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rosalie Wanders <rosalie@mailbox.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 15:01:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] SporeModManager: fix Path::GetAbsolutePath() for mingw

---
 SporeModManager/SporeModManagerHelpers/Path.cpp | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/SporeModManager/SporeModManagerHelpers/Path.cpp b/SporeModManager/SporeModManagerHelpers/Path.cpp
index d691866..9b2db1a 100644
--- a/SporeModManager/SporeModManagerHelpers/Path.cpp
+++ b/SporeModManager/SporeModManagerHelpers/Path.cpp
@@ -126,6 +126,16 @@ std::filesystem::path Path::GetAbsolutePath(std::filesystem::path path)
     }
     catch (...)
     {
+        // mingw has weird behavior with std::filesystem::canonical(),
+        // it throws an exception even though the relative path exists,
+        // so to workaround that, we'll check if the fullPath exists and
+        // return that
+#ifdef __MINGW32__
+        if (std::filesystem::is_directory(fullPath))
+        {
+            return fullPath;
+        }
+#endif
         // just return the original path,
         // because the directory probably doesn't exist
         return path;