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Does the autotools version work for you?

Yes

In meson wrapper there is the option -D b_lto=true

I can test that later. Maybe LTO is the cause. The warnings i686-w64-mingw32-ar: glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/glist.c.obj: plugin needed to handle lto object are also pointing in that direction. Likely I just have to pass the path of the plugin to ar. Do you know how to add additional flags for the ar tool in meson?

Or maybe I should use i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-ar instead of i686-w64-mingw32-ar. Not sure what the difference is but it could make a difference.

I'll try to use mingw-w64-{gcc,binutils} too.

Does the autotools version work for you?

In meson wrapper there is the option -D b_lto=true

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/meson-mingw-wrapper?h=mingw-w64-meson#n34

does something change if you remove this option?

Differences:

• You're using mingw-w64-{gcc,binutils}-bin and I'm using mingw-w64-{gcc,binutils}.
• You're using mingw-w64-headers-bin-5.0.4-1 and I'm using mingw-w64-headers-5.0.4-2.
• The step Linking target glib/libglib-2.0-0.dll fails for me. Since it passes for you the exact compiler invocation is not printed so I can't compare it.
• My log has a lot of messages like i686-w64-mingw32-ar: glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/glist.c.obj: plugin needed to handle lto object.

Note that Checking for function "vasprintf" : YES and similar do not differ.

Since you're not able to reproduce I suppose I'll have to investigate the issue myself. But thanks for your help so far.

here is my full build output including packages installed as deps

https://pastebin.com/DTmdjkXe

can you point me to the differences on your system? thanks!

Yes, I'm always building in a clean chroot. I can investigate the issue later and also test the autotools version.

just to be sure, are you building in a clean chroot?

Here you can find a PKGBUILD that use autotools instead of meson

https://pastebin.com/PTbGzTGB

is this one working for you?

2.58.0 fails to build here:

[358/650] Linking target glib/libglib-2.0-0.dll.
FAILED: glib/libglib-2.0-0.dll
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc  -o glib/libglib-2.0-0.dll glib/glib.o 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/deprecated_gallocator.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/deprecated_gcache.c
.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/deprecated_gcompletion.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/deprecated_grel.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/deprecated_gthread-depre
cated.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/garcbox.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/garray.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gasyncqueue.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@s
ha/gatomic.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gbacktrace.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gbase64.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gbitlock.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib
-2.0@sha/gbookmarkfile.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gbytes.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gcharset.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gchecksum.c.obj' 'glib/
glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gconvert.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gdataset.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gdate.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gdatetime.c.obj' 'g
lib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gdir.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/genviron.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gerror.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gfileutils.c.obj' 
'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/ggettext.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/ghash.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/ghmac.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/ghook.c.obj' 'gl
ib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/ghostutils.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/giochannel.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gkeyfile.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/glib-init
.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/glib-private.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/glist.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gmain.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gmap
pedfile.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gmarkup.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gmem.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gmessages.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha
/gnode.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/goption.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gpattern.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gpoll.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/
gprimes.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gqsort.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gquark.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gqueue.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/g
rand.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/grcbox.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/grefcount.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/grefstring.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@s
ha/gregex.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gscanner.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gsequence.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gshell.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.
0@sha/gslice.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gslist.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gstdio.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gstrfuncs.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2
.0@sha/gstring.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gstringchunk.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gtestutils.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gthread.c.obj' 'glib/gl
ib@@glib-2.0@sha/gthreadpool.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gtimer.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gtimezone.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gtranslit.c.obj'
 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gtrashstack.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gtree.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/guniprop.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gutf8.c.o
bj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gunibreak.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gunicollate.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gunidecomp.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/
gurifuncs.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gutils.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/guuid.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gvariant.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sh
a/gvariant-core.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gvariant-parser.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gvariant-serialiser.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gvariantty
peinfo.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gvarianttype.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gversion.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gwakeup.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2
.0@sha/gprintf.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gwin32.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/gspawn-win32.c.obj' 'glib/glib@@glib-2.0@sha/giowin32.c.obj' 'glib/glib@
@glib-2.0@sha/gthread-win32.c.obj' -flto -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -shared -Wl,--start-group -Wl,--out-implib=glib/libglib-2.0.dll.a glib/lib
charset/libcharset.a glib/gnulib/libgnulib.a -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -lws2_32 -lole32 -lwinmm -lshlwapi /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/libpcre.dll.a -lintl -lws2_
32 -lwinmm -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -Wl,--end-group
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNiHBY6.ltrans0.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text+0x2940): undefined reference to `_
g_gnulib_vasprintf'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNiHBY6.ltrans0.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text+0x6b51): undefined reference to `_g_gnulib_sprintf'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNiHBY6.ltrans0.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text+0x6b8d): undefined reference to `_g_gnulib_sprintf'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNiHBY6.ltrans0.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text+0x6bd2): undefined reference to `_g_gnulib_sprintf'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNiHBY6.ltrans0.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text+0x6c05): undefined reference to `_g_gnulib_sprintf'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNiHBY6.ltrans0.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text+0x6c2a): undefined reference to `_g_gnulib_sprintf'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: /tmp/ccNiHBY6.ltrans0.ltrans.o:<artificial>:(.text+0x29f9): undefined reference to `_g_gnulib_vsnprintf'
...

@xantares You mean the native/Linux executables are under /usr/{i686,x86_64}-w64-mingw32/bin? Those are not so nice, indeed.

However, I'm not sure that removing them is a good idea, too. Maybe some of the packages requiring glib2 need those exe files at build time? If that is true, we could use the same approach as in the Qt packages (put stuff under /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/qt/bin and have prefixed symlinks under /usr/bin) or just use the executables from the regular glib2 package. Not sure whether the 2nd option is possible (eg. it would not work for Qt).

Could you cleanup the exe files? xan.