Fix a crash due to improper error handling on Windows #133

Job	Run time
CMake Build	49s
Test / Windows (6.1 - windows-2022)	6m 42s
Test / Linux (nightly-main - noble)	1m 20s
Test / Linux (6.1 - focal)	1m 20s
Test / Linux (nightly-main - focal)	1m 24s
Test / Linux (nightly-main - jammy)	1m 27s
Test / Linux (6.1 - noble)	1m 7s
Test / Linux (6.1 - rhel-ubi9)	1m 10s
Test / Linux (nightly-main - rhel-ubi9)	1m 34s
Test / macOS (Xcode 16.3 - sequoia - ARM64)	2m 28s
Test / Linux (6.1 - jammy)	1m 14s
Test / Windows (nightly-main - windows-2019)	11m 59s
Soundness / License headers check	5s
Soundness / YAML lint check	4s
Soundness / Broken symlinks check	3s
Soundness / Python lint check	8s
Soundness / Shell check	33s
Soundness / Documentation check	0s
Soundness / API breakage check	0s
Soundness / Unacceptable language check	0s
Soundness / Format check	0s
	33m 27s

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