pygobject-2.28.6 won't configure: No package 'gobject-introspection-1.0' found, how do I resolve?

Question

I\'m trying to get pygobject-2.28.6 to compile in cygwin (version in repository is 2.28.4 which has some issues). Here is the tail of ./configure:

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Answer 1

You're probably missing the development package. The package name varies by distribution, but it's the one containing /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc (or /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc for some 64-bit distros):

• Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, etc.: gobject-introspection-devel
• Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.: libgirepository1.0-dev
• Arch: gobject-introspection
• FreeBSD: gobject-introspection
• Cygwin: libgirepository1.0-devel
• msys2: mingw-w64-x86_64-gobject-introspection and/or mingw-w64-i686-gobject-introspection