diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index ad3876667..688713132 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -26,14 +26,11 @@ install:
   - git submodule update --init --recursive
   - ps: |
         if ($env:BUILD_TYPE -eq 'mingw') {
-          $dependencies = "mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg"
-          # redirect err to null to prevent warnings from becoming errors
-          # workaround to prevent pacman from failing due to cyclical dependencies
-          C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-freetype mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-fontconfig" 2> $null
-          C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -U http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2-2.0.5-2-any.pkg.tar.xz" 2> $null
-          C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -S $dependencies" 2> $null
-          # freeze the cmake to a stable version, on version < 3.9.6 cmake may generate a Makefile links against gcc_eh instead of gcc_s_eh
-          C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -U http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake-3.11.1-2-any.pkg.tar.xz" 2> $null
+          $dependencies = "mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg"
+          C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -U http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2-2.0.5-2-any.pkg.tar.xz"
+          C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash -lc "pacman --noconfirm -S $dependencies"
+          # (HACK) ignore errors
+          0
         }
 
 before_build: