How do I recursively create a folder in Win32?

Question

I\'m trying to create a function that takes the name of a directory (C:\\foo\\bar, or ..\\foo\\bar\\..\\baz, or \\\\someserver\\foo\\bar

Answer 1

Here's a version that works with no external libraries, so Win32-only, and that function in all versions of Windows (including Windows CE, where I needed it):

wchar_t *path = GetYourPathFromWherever();

wchar_t folder[MAX_PATH];
wchar_t *end;
ZeroMemory(folder, MAX_PATH * sizeof(wchar_t));

end = wcschr(path, L'\\');

while(end != NULL)
{
    wcsncpy(folder, path, end - path + 1);
    if(!CreateDirectory(folder, NULL))
    {
        DWORD err = GetLastError();

        if(err != ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS)
        {
            // do whatever handling you'd like
        }
    }
    end = wcschr(++end, L'\\');
}