diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 661bc406f3..f1520c7385 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ clone_folder: c:\gopath\src\github.com\Microsoft\hcsshim
 
 environment:
   GOPATH: c:\gopath
-  PATH: C:\mingw-w64\x86_64-7.2.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64\bin;%GOPATH%\bin;C:\gometalinter-2.0.12-windows-amd64;%PATH%
+  PATH: "%GOPATH%\\bin;C:\\gometalinter-2.0.12-windows-amd64;%PATH%"
 
 stack: go 1.13.4
 
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ artifacts:
   - path: 'containerd-shim-runhcs-v1.test.exe'
   - path: 'cri-containerd.test.exe'
   - path: 'functional.test.exe'
-  - path: 'runhcs.test.exe'
\ No newline at end of file
+  - path: 'runhcs.test.exe'
diff --git a/internal/hcs/cgo.go b/internal/hcs/cgo.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 3669c34aa2..0000000000
--- a/internal/hcs/cgo.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-package hcs
-
-import "C"
-
-// This import is needed to make the library compile as CGO because HCSSHIM
-// only works with CGO due to callbacks from HCS comming back from a C thread
-// which is not supported without CGO. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10973