diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index b20fdf3f..e75908ae 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 # CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-version: 1.0.{build}
+version: 2.19.0-{build}
 
 max_jobs: 4
 
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ init:
 - if "%APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE%"=="Visual Studio 2017" (set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Visual Studio 15 2017%arch%&&set parallelism=/maxcpucount&&set logger=/logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll")
 - if "%APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE%"=="Visual Studio 2015" (set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Visual Studio 14 2015%arch%&&set parallelism=/maxcpucount&&set logger=/logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll")
 - if "%APPVEYOR_BUILD_WORKER_IMAGE%"=="Visual Studio 2013" (set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Visual Studio 12 2013%arch%&&set parallelism=/maxcpucount&&set logger=/logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll")
-- if "%MINGW_VERSION%"=="5.3.0" (set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja%%set build_type=-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release)
-- if "%MINGW_VERSION%"=="6.3.0" (set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja&&set build_type=-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release)
+- if "%MINGW_VERSION%"=="5.3.0" (set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja%%set build_type=-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc)
+- if "%MINGW_VERSION%"=="6.3.0" (set CMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja&&set build_type=-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc)
 # print out useful information
 - ninja --version
 - cmake --version
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ before_build:
 - if "%MINGW_VERSION%"=="6.3.0" ( if "%PLATFORM%"=="x64" (set mingw_path=C:\mingw-w64\x86_64-6.3.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev1) else ( set mingw_path=C:\mingw-w64\i686-6.3.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v5-rev1))
 - if "%PLATFORM%"=="x64" (set python_path=C:\Python36-x64)
 - set PATH=%python_path%;%PATH%
-- set PATH=%PATH%;%mingw_path%
+- set PATH=%mingw_path%;%PATH%
 - md build-sol2
 - cd build-sol2
 - cmake .. -G "%CMAKE_GENERATOR%" %build_type% -DLUA_VERSION="%LUA_VERSION%" -DBUILD_LUA=ON -DBUILD_LUA_AS_DLL=OFF -DTESTS=ON -DEXAMPLES=ON -DSINGLE=ON -DTESTS_EXAMPLES=ON -DTESTS_SINGLE=ON
@@ -128,7 +128,3 @@ notifications:
   on_build_success: false
   on_build_failure: false
   on_build_status_changed: true
-- provider: Email
-  on_build_success: false
-  on_build_failure: false
-  on_build_status_changed: true