From a7476af8f853f3081bf39d0e023ef7d4284433ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: firewave <firewave@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:33:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #13641 - FileLister: do not report an error on Windows
 when the given path does not exist

---
 cli/filelister.cpp      | 5 +++--
 test/testfilelister.cpp | 5 -----
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cli/filelister.cpp b/cli/filelister.cpp
index 676d0448a51..30392ef4b22 100644
--- a/cli/filelister.cpp
+++ b/cli/filelister.cpp
@@ -86,8 +86,9 @@ static std::string addFiles2(std::list<FileWithDetails>&files, const std::string
     HANDLE hFind = FindFirstFileA(searchPattern.c_str(), &ffd);
     if (INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE == hFind) {
         const DWORD err = GetLastError();
-        if (err == ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) {
-            // no files matched
+        if (err == ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND || // the pattern did not match anything
+            err == ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND)   // the given search path does not exist
+        {
             return "";
         }
         return "finding files failed. Search pattern: '" + searchPattern + "'. (error: " + std::to_string(err) + ")";
diff --git a/test/testfilelister.cpp b/test/testfilelister.cpp
index 80601d61050..fefafededd9 100644
--- a/test/testfilelister.cpp
+++ b/test/testfilelister.cpp
@@ -181,12 +181,7 @@ class TestFileLister : public TestFixture {
         {
             const std::string addfile = Path::join(Path::join(adddir, "lib2"), "token.cpp"); // does not exist
             const std::string err = FileLister::addFiles(files, addfile, {}, true,PathMatch({}));
-#ifdef _WIN32
-            // TODO: get rid of this error - caused by missing intermediate folder
-            ASSERT_EQUALS("finding files failed. Search pattern: '" + dirprefix_nat + "lib2\\token.cpp'. (error: 3)", err);
-#else
             ASSERT_EQUALS("", err);
-#endif
         }
         {
             const std::string addfile = Path::join(Path::join(adddir, "lib"), "matchcompiler.h");