diff --git a/mingw-w64-netcdf/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-netcdf/PKGBUILD
index 0a1cd2b3009a4..bb09c3684af8e 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-netcdf/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-netcdf/PKGBUILD
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cc"
 optdepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-netcdf-c++: C++ bindings"
             "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-netcdf-fortran: Fortran bindings"
             "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-blosc: blosc and zstdfilters plugins")
-checkdepends=("unzip")
 source=("https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/archive/v${pkgver}/${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
         "0001-no-debug-libraries.patch"
         "0002-fix-build-with-hdf5-2.0.patch::https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/commit/741c4b4a.patch")
@@ -118,6 +117,7 @@ build() {
 }
 
 check() {
+  install -Dm755 /usr/bin/bsdunzip "${srcdir}/build-shared-${MSYSTEM}/unzip"
   cd "${srcdir}/build-shared-${MSYSTEM}"
   "${MINGW_PREFIX}"/bin/cmake.exe -DNETCDF_ENABLE_TESTS=ON ../${_realname}-c-${pkgver}
   "${MINGW_PREFIX}"/bin/cmake.exe --build .