Re: Errors installing make and ninja

On 30/04/2026 13:00, Worlton, Charles via Cygwin wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I have tried several mirrors.

... without success?

 > My> laptop is managed by my company and the anti-virus software can only
> be disabled by an administrator.  The company does not give
> developers administrative rights on their computers.
> ________________________________
> From: Andrey Repin <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2026 12:58 AM
> To: Worlton, Charles <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Errors installing make and ninja
> 
> Greetings, Worlton, Charles! > I wanted to installed make and/or ninja on Windows 11, but it is failing with the following error: > Downloaded > C: \Users\cworlto\Downloads/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin. mirror. constant. com%2f/x86_64/release/make/make-4. 4. 1-2. tar. xz
> 
> 
> Greetings, Worlton, Charles!
> 
>> I wanted to installed make and/or ninja on Windows 11, but it is failing with the following error:
> 
>> Downloaded
>> C:\Users\cworlto\Downloads/https%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f/x86_64/release/make/make-4.4.1-2.tar.xz
>> The following package(s) had download errors:
>>    w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1

I verified that particular file on that particular mirror:

> $ grep 'install:.*w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1' setup.ini
> install: x86_64/release/w32api-runtime/w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz 3484152 d06e35dfeb4cf86faf59bd512d192870f8711ee581bae127beecd8be82800dca84c0f69e27921317ea6db217864dd942bd777d72efd43a47720f0e507c7cb253
> 
> $ wget https://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86_64/release/w32api-runtime/w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz
> --2026-04-30 13:29:47--  https://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86_64/release/w32api-runtime/w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz
> Resolving cygwin.mirror.constant.com (cygwin.mirror.constant.com)... 108.61.5.83
> Connecting to cygwin.mirror.constant.com (cygwin.mirror.constant.com)|108.61.5.83|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 3484152 (3.3M) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: ‘w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz’
> 
> w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz    100%[==================================================================================>]   3.32M  3.86MB/s    in 0.9s
> 
> 2026-04-30 13:29:49 (3.86 MB/s) - ‘w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz’ saved [3484152/3484152]
> 
> $ sha512sum w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz
> d06e35dfeb4cf86faf59bd512d192870f8711ee581bae127beecd8be82800dca84c0f69e27921317ea6db217864dd942bd777d72efd43a47720f0e507c7cb253 *w32api-runtime-14.0.0-1-x86_64.tar.xz

Note the matching size and sha512 hash.

Perhaps you can provide the /var/log/setup.log.full file, which might 
provide more insight into exactly what is going wrong.


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