skeeto
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1 month ago By design you don't need admin privileges, so that shouldn't matter. (In fact, running it with admin privileges will just create difficulties, so definitely don't do that.) Some possibilities:
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You tried to run it straight out of the ZIP. (Windows warns that it probably won't work correctly, and it's right.)
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Something went wrong unzipping the archive, making it incomplete. This may include security software intercepting the unzipping process.
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w64devit.exe was moved out of place. It must be positioned inside the installation just how it was unzipped, which is how it finds the rest of w64devkit. (Consider: You can have many instances installed at once, and they won't interfere with each other.) If this was the case, create a shortcut instead.
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Security software is blocking sh.exe from loading. From your screenshot it clearly didn't block w64devkit.exe.
As a test, try running bin/sh.exe directly. It won't set up $PATH, but you'll get a shell and the basic unix commands. If it doesn't work, then perhaps there will be more information, like a security pop-up blocking execution.
When I try to launch w64devkit on windows by double-clicking on it. I get the following error :-
the files are located under C:\ProgramFiles . And I have admin privilages on the machine. I am using windows 11.