OK, I finally found the way to make the package manager think that it had V2.24.31 - files gtk+-2.0.pc and gtk+-win32-2.0.pc in folder msys64\mingw64\lib\pkgconfig had to be edited.
That just leaves the problem of how to get poppler-data recognised >Hi Jehan, > >I managed to resolve the dependency on poppler-glib but not >poppler-data as yet. In the meantime I updated the packages using >pacman to get the recommended version of gtk+-2.0 (V2.24.32 instead of >V2.24.31) - big mistake - the dll file is now 3.8 kB instead of the >version 2.24.31 file which was 5.7 kB - trying to build GIMP with the >V2.24.32 version throws errors. Whilst I have a copy of the V2.24.31 >dll I can't find the relevant place to alter the version of the >package that the system thinks it has installed. So for the time being >I'm stuck. > >If it helps anyone else, the steps I followed to get poppler-glib >installed (at least to the point where the GIMP build doesn't complain >about a missing dependency) were as follows: > >Download file poppler-0.44.0.tar.xz from >https://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html > >Extract the contents of the downloaded file and move the contents of >the V0.44 folder into folder poppler (rather than leaving them in a >sub-folder) > >cd poppler > >aclocal > >automake > >./configure --prefix=$PREFIX > >make -j4 > >make install - j4 -- programmer_ceds (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
