czkawka_gui.exe not launching after downloading.

[RalkeyOfficial]

czkawka_gui.exe not launching after downloading.

[Battletoadz]

ffmpeg should only be necessary for certain features of the application, like comparing pictures, audio, and video. For just ordinary hash comparison it's not necessary.

On windows I found the best way to Install for ease-of-use GUI is to use msys2, as this app is built to prefer linux, so you can run and compile with msys2 way easier than trying to use the native CLI or windows explorer

Follow the instructions here - https://www.msys2.org/#installation
make sure you also install the GCC tools included there via the msys2 console to ensure no issues with czkawka using this command: $ pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc

Once you have install both these packages, simply execute this command within the msys2 console to install czkawka: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-czkawka-gui

Note - this installs the app within your msys2 master directory. This is one of the purposes of msys2 - to act as a sort of alternative root folder to the default windows ones.

Once that is installed, you can find the final app here \msys64\mingw64\bin\czkawka_gui.exe

In order to reduce conflicts or errors, ensure you're running everything with administrative privileges, and allow msys2 through your firewall before installing anything.

[RalkeyOfficial]

That worked thank you.