FWIW, here's a routine from the Fossil SCM which does conceptually the same thing and accounts for Windows:

/*
** Compute the name of the configuration database.  If unable to find the
** database, return 0 if isOptional is true, or panic if isOptional is false.
**
** Space to hold the result comes from fossil_malloc().
*/
static char *db_configdb_name(int isOptional){
  char *zHome;        /* Home directory */
  char *zDbName;      /* Name of the database file */


  /* On Windows, look for these directories, in order:
  **
  **    FOSSIL_HOME
  **    LOCALAPPDATA
  **    APPDATA
  **    USERPROFILE
  **    HOMEDRIVE HOMEPATH
  */
#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
  zHome = fossil_getenv("FOSSIL_HOME");
  if( zHome==0 ){
    zHome = fossil_getenv("LOCALAPPDATA");
    if( zHome==0 ){
      zHome = fossil_getenv("APPDATA");
      if( zHome==0 ){
        zHome = fossil_getenv("USERPROFILE");
        if( zHome==0 ){
          char *zDrive = fossil_getenv("HOMEDRIVE");
          char *zPath = fossil_getenv("HOMEPATH");
          if( zDrive && zPath ) zHome = mprintf("%s%s", zDrive, zPath);
        }
      }
    }
  }
  zDbName = mprintf("%//_fossil", zHome);
  fossil_free(zHome);
  return zDbName;

#else /* if unix */
  char *zXdgHome;

  /* For unix. a 5-step algorithm is used.
  ** See ../www/tech_overview.wiki for discussion.
  **
  ** Step 1:  If FOSSIL_HOME exists -> $FOSSIL_HOME/.fossil
  */
  zHome = fossil_getenv("FOSSIL_HOME");
  if( zHome!=0 ) return mprintf("%s/.fossil", zHome);

  /* Step 2:  If HOME exists and file $HOME/.fossil exists -> $HOME/.fossil
  */
  zHome = fossil_getenv("HOME");
  if( zHome ){
    zDbName = mprintf("%s/.fossil", zHome);
    if( file_size(zDbName, ExtFILE)>1024*3 ){
      return zDbName;
    }
    fossil_free(zDbName);
  }

  /* Step 3: if XDG_CONFIG_HOME exists -> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fossil.db
  */
  zXdgHome = fossil_getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME");
  if( zXdgHome!=0 ){
    return mprintf("%s/fossil.db", zXdgHome);
  }

  /* The HOME variable is required in order to continue.
  */
  if( zHome==0 ){
    if( isOptional ) return 0;
    fossil_fatal("cannot locate home directory - please set one of the "
                 "FOSSIL_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, or HOME environment "
                 "variables");
  }

  /* Step 4: If $HOME/.config is a directory -> $HOME/.config/fossil.db
  */
  zXdgHome = mprintf("%s/.config", zHome);
  if( file_isdir(zXdgHome, ExtFILE)==1 ){
    fossil_free(zXdgHome);
    return mprintf("%s/.config/fossil.db", zHome);
  }

  /* Step 5: Otherwise -> $HOME/.fossil
  */
  return mprintf("%s/.fossil", zHome);
#endif /* unix */
}

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