Reason:

There is a circular dependency between GLIB and the pkg_config packages. In order to overcome the lack of the dependencies you must do a bootstrap method. This requires some basic knowledge of how to overcome the requirement of pkg_config within the GLIB configure process by telling the configure script where to find some things that pkg_config would have given it.

Requirements:

• Using mingw-get install
  • gcc
  • g++
  • libiconv
  • zlib
  • libz
  • msys
  • msys-perl
  • msys-m4

• Install python-2.7 and point your PATH to the installation directory e.g. /c/python as well as /c/python/DLLs.

• Download the source, build and install libffi
  • cd /path/to/libffi/source
  • mkdir bld
  • cd bld
  • ../configure --prefix=/mingw
  • make && make install

Building GLIB without PKG_CONFIG:

• cd /path/to/glib/source
• mkdir bld
• cd bld
• export LIBFFI_CFLAGS='-I /mingw/lib/libffi-VERSION/include'
  • VERSION is to be replaced with whatever version you built above.
  • For me VERSION is 3.0.10.
• export LIBFFI_LIBS=-lffi
• ../configure --prefix=/mingw --with-pcre=internal
• lengthy amount of time later
• make
• lengthy amount of time later
• make install

Hopefully

If all goes well you should now be able to build pkg_config and install it. Then come back to GLIB and rebuild it.

• cd /path/to/glib/source/bld
• make clean
• ../configure --prefix=/mingw
• make
• make install