diff --git a/mingw-w64-gtksourceview4/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-gtksourceview4/PKGBUILD
index 627f07b743..27ae2e802c 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-gtksourceview4/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-gtksourceview4/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 _realname=gtksourceview
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}4
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}4"
-pkgver=4.6.0
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=4.8.1
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A text widget adding syntax highlighting and more to GNOME (mingw-w64)"
 arch=('any')
 url="https://www.gnome.org"
@@ -20,33 +20,31 @@ depends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gtk3"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libxml2")
 source=("https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtksourceview/${pkgver%.*}/gtksourceview-${pkgver}.tar.xz"
         "skip-tests.patch")
-sha256sums=('4c13e30ab2e602abdc56f55d35f43c1142a79b1cd77aa8839d2fc85e966d9a85'
+sha256sums=('d163d71b5fcafbc5b1eec6dd841edbdbcddd3a7511cd5fdcffd86b8bbfe69ac1'
             '61da80db865434f5c7fbdf79e2dc38eeaaad4eca52313e9eac0b24f3fdfd0ffe')
 
 prepare() {
-  cd ${_realname}-${pkgver}
-
+cd "${srcdir}/${_realname}-${pkgver}"
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}"/skip-tests.patch
 }
 
 build() {
-  mkdir -p "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}"
-  cd "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}"
+  [[ -d "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}" ]] && rm -rf "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}"
+  mkdir -p "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}" && cd "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}"
 
   MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL="--prefix=" \
-  meson \
+  ${MINGW_PREFIX}/bin/meson.exe \
     --prefix="${MINGW_PREFIX}" \
     --buildtype=plain \
     -Dgtk_doc=true \
     "../${_realname}-${pkgver}"
 
-  ninja
+  ${MINGW_PREFIX}/bin/meson.exe compile
 }
 
 package() {
   cd "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}"
-
-  DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" ninja install
+  DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" ${MINGW_PREFIX}/bin/meson.exe install
 
   install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${_realname}-${pkgver}/COPYING" "${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/share/licenses/${_realname}4/COPYING"
 }