diff --git a/mingw-w64-pdf2djvu/001-cxx17-for-poppler.patch b/mingw-w64-pdf2djvu/001-cxx17-for-poppler.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d391b4546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mingw-w64-pdf2djvu/001-cxx17-for-poppler.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- pdf2djvu-0.9.18.2/configure.ac.orig	2022-01-08 11:16:17.403000000 +0100
++++ pdf2djvu-0.9.18.2/configure.ac	2022-01-08 11:16:12.473049700 +0100
+@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
+ 
+ AC_PROG_CXX
+ 
+-P_CXX11
++AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_17()
+ 
+ AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
+ 
diff --git a/mingw-w64-pdf2djvu/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-pdf2djvu/PKGBUILD
index 5b03a04722..5462ec6fab 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-pdf2djvu/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-pdf2djvu/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ _realname=pdf2djvu
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}"
 pkgver=0.9.18.2
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Creates DjVu files from PDF files"
 arch=('any')
 mingw_arch=('mingw32' 'mingw64' 'ucrt64' 'clang64' 'clang32')
@@ -18,11 +18,14 @@ depends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-poppler"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-graphicsmagick"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libiconv")
 makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc"
+             "autoconf-archive"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-autotools")
 checkdepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-python2-nose")
-source=(https://github.com/jwilk/pdf2djvu/releases/download/${pkgver}/pdf2djvu-${pkgver}.tar.xz{,.asc})
+source=(https://github.com/jwilk/pdf2djvu/releases/download/${pkgver}/pdf2djvu-${pkgver}.tar.xz{,.asc}
+        "001-cxx17-for-poppler.patch")
 sha256sums=('9ea03f21d841a336808d89d65015713c0785e7295a6559d77771dc795333a9fa'
-            'SKIP')
+            'SKIP'
+            '4c50966b0fc05d78f6ec78b20df587fb5e1861f3ff326ee66c8baf10ec3cb39f')
 validpgpkeys=('CDB5A1243ACDB63009AD07212D4EB3A6015475F5') # Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
 noextract=(pdf2djvu-${pkgver}.tar.xz)
 
@@ -32,12 +35,19 @@ prepare() {
   cp ${srcdir}/${_realname}-${pkgver}/tests/test-antialias-off.tex \
      ${srcdir}/${_realname}-${pkgver}/tests/test-antialias-on.tex
   cd ${srcdir}/${_realname}-${pkgver}
+
+  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/001-cxx17-for-poppler.patch"
+
+  autoreconf -fvi
 }
 
 build() {
   [[ -d ${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM} ]] && rm -rf ${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM}
   cp -rf ${_realname}-${pkgver} build-${MSYSTEM} && cd ${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM}
 
+  # exiv2 depends on std::auto_ptr which got removed.
+  # should be fixed in exiv2 0.28
+  CXXFLAGS+=" -D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_CXX17_REMOVED_AUTO_PTR=1" \
   ./configure \
       --prefix=${MINGW_PREFIX} \
       --build=${MINGW_CHOST} \