But to bring things back to the main thread and the second comment in my previous post, is it possible the dependencies have a clash somewhere?

Sorry - I did think about that (and will continue to keep it in mind), but then neglected to respond to it.
I suspect (haven't checked) that both MSYS2 and SP provide a freetype2 library - but then there are no problems with freetype, anyway.
Also, I think such problems would result in some noise about missing entry points or somesuch.

As regards the Gtk2 stuff, those libraries exist only in MSYS2 - so I don't think that dll nameclashes could be part of the problem with G-O-I.
I've just noticed that, with my own build of 5.38.0, pkg-config version 0.29.2 is being used, whereas SP is using version 0.26 (in the form of Strawberry's perl/bin/pkg-config.bat).
So, tonight, I'll rebuild the Gtk2 stuff on SP using the 0.29.2 version, and see if that makes any difference.
With SP builds, I've needed to specify CPATH and LIBRARY_PATH for the Gtk2 headers and libraries to be found. And that, in itself, suggests to me that the pkg-config.bat being used is not quite doing the job correctly.

Please do keep any suggestions/ideas coming in. I'm just bumping around in the dark ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^10: gmake error on Glib compile by syphilis
in thread gmake error on Glib compile by MikeMc69

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