gdk-pixbuf2 cannot find -lstaticpixbufloader-gdiplus

[StuartWhelan]

I installed a new version of msys2 on 64bit Windows 10 (1803) to build a gtk3 application.

I had the gdk-pixbuf2 2.38.0-1 package installed.

When I compiled I received:

gcc -o gtk3.exe gtk3.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-msys/7.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-msys/bin/ld: cannot find -lstaticpixbufloader-gdiplus

I could not find any reference to a library called staticpixbufloader anyone on my pc.

I downgraded to gdk-pixbuf2 2.36.9-1 and was able to compile and run successfully.

I can see that https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/blob/gdk-pixbuf-2-36/gdk-pixbuf/meson.build#L107 contains a reference to this library

[lazka]

Thanks, that's mesonbuild/meson#3939. We'll need to patch the .pc file to remove staticpixbufloader for now (you can do that too in the meantime)