Failed to launch login shell

[swarnava112]

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.

[skeeto]

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: * You tried to run it straight out of the ZIP. (Windows warns that it probably won't work correctly, and it's right.) * Something went wrong unzipping the archive, making it incomplete. This may include security software intercepting the unzipping process. * 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. * 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.

[yukozh]

I'm also encountering this problem.