I'm using Poppler on an embedded device with Cairo + code to copy to the framebuffer, but not using Gtk or Gdk. The attached patch makes Gdk optional - many users might not need the Gdk functionality.
Created attachment 13182 [details] [review] Patch modifying poppler 0.6.3 to make GDK optional
This should be fixed in git master now. I've used a different approach. Now to compile poppler without gdk you need to use the configure flags --disable-splash-output --disable-gdk. Thank you very much for reporting.
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