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 dependenc
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 wh