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

I don't have enough rep to comment, so this is really meant to be an addendum to nemequ's answer:

• MSYS2: mingw-w64-x86_64-gobject-introspection and/or mingw-w64-i686-gobject-introspection