From fac83c023dd42d0277ad82e92a33bfc230ddf572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Holmer <holmerj@uindy.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:31:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue where output directory would not be created if it
 did not exist

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 3 +++
 src/main.rs  | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c85e817a..e2a139ec 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+**Version 0.5.1 (unreleased)**
+ - Fix issue where output directory would not be created if it did not exist
+
 **Version 0.5.0**
  - [SEMVER_MINOR] Palette entries can now reduced, on by default ([#11](https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng/issues/11))
  - Don't report that we are in pretend mode if verbosity is set to none
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 9eb0bf11..23d6a83d 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use clap::{App, Arg, ArgMatches};
 use oxipng::png;
 use regex::Regex;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::fs::DirBuilder;
 use std::io::{Write, stderr};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
@@ -410,7 +411,12 @@ fn parse_opts_into_struct(matches: &ArgMatches, opts: &mut oxipng::Options) -> R
     if let Some(x) = matches.value_of("output_dir") {
         let path = PathBuf::from(x);
         if !path.exists() {
-
+            match DirBuilder::new()
+                      .recursive(true)
+                      .create(&path) {
+                Ok(_) => (),
+                Err(x) => return Err(format!("Could not create output directory {}", x)),
+            };
         } else if !path.is_dir() {
             return Err(format!("{} is an existing file (not a directory), cannot create directory",
                                x));