After getting tired of having to re-run the CygWin setup-x86.exe a few times to install one-more-missing-requirement, I discovered this PR and manually extracted "scripts/ci/installCygwin.bat" from this PR to my system so I could run it manually.
Afterwards doing "cd build.win32x86/pharo.cog.spur; ./mvm" worked like a dream and an hour later the compile completed successfully.
So it seems this is a great initiative. What is holding it up? Can an admin give the CI a bump to see if the error was transitory?