From 4d5364e9e49365b3ce2fec53c77320c46a1b2268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leon Styhre <leon@leonstyhre.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:19:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] (Windows) Fixed a MinGW compile error.

---
 es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.cpp | 5 +++--
 es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.h   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.cpp b/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.cpp
index 4f904da8f..a702c464c 100644
--- a/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.cpp
+++ b/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.cpp
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ namespace Utils
         }
 
         int launchGameWindows(const std::wstring& cmd_utf16,
-                              std::wstring& startDirectory,
+                              const std::wstring& startDirectory,
                               bool runInBackground,
                               bool hideWindow)
         {
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ namespace Utils
             bool processReturnValue = true;
             DWORD errorCode = 0;
 
-            wchar_t* startDir {startDirectory == L"" ? nullptr : &startDirectory[0]};
+            std::wstring startDirectoryTemp {startDirectory};
+            wchar_t* startDir {startDirectory == L"" ? nullptr : &startDirectoryTemp[0]};
 
             // clang-format off
             processReturnValue = CreateProcessW(
diff --git a/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.h b/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.h
index 6b5a12023..1dd319f5c 100644
--- a/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.h
+++ b/es-core/src/utils/PlatformUtil.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ namespace Utils
                            const std::string& startDirectory,
                            bool runInBackground);
         int launchGameWindows(const std::wstring& cmd_utf16,
-                              std::wstring& startDirectory,
+                              const std::wstring& startDirectory,
                               bool runInBackground,
                               bool hideWindow);