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>> Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path
> 
> this is curious

It’s happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system.  Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path.

This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found.
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