diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/zathura/djvu/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/zathura/djvu/default.nix
index d280a10f618..58985dced42 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/zathura/djvu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/zathura/djvu/default.nix
@@ -1,29 +1,20 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, gtk, zathura_core, girara, djvulibre, gettext }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, meson, ninja, pkgconfig, gtk, zathura_core, girara, djvulibre, gettext }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "zathura-djvu-0.2.7";
+  name = "zathura-djvu-0.2.8";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/plugins/download/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1sbfdsyp50qc85xc4458sn4w1rv1qbygdwmcr5kjlfpsmdq98vhd";
+    url = "https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/plugins/download/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0axkv1crdxn0z44whaqp2ibkdqcykhjnxk7qzms0dp1b67an9rnh";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ djvulibre gettext zathura_core gtk girara ];
 
-  patches = [ ./gtkflags.patch ];
-
-  postPatch = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
-    string1='-shared ''${LDFLAGS} -o $@ ''$(OBJECTS) ''${LIBS}'
-    string2='-Wl,-dylib_install_name,''${PLUGIN}.dylib -Wl,-bundle_loader,${zathura_core}/bin/.zathura-wrapped -bundle ''${LDFLAGS} -o $@ ''${OBJECTS} ''${LIBS}'
-    makefileC1=$(sed -r 's/\.so/.dylib/g' Makefile)
-    echo "''${makefileC1/$string1/$string2}" > Makefile
-  '';
-
-  makeFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" "PLUGINDIR=$(out)/lib" ];
+  PKG_CONFIG_ZATHURA_PLUGINDIR = "lib/zathura";
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    homepage = http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/;
+    homepage = https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura-djvu/;
     description = "A zathura DJVU plugin";
     longDescription = ''
       The zathura-djvu plugin adds DjVu support to zathura by using the
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/zathura/djvu/gtkflags.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/zathura/djvu/gtkflags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e8819e6082..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/zathura/djvu/gtkflags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- zathura-djvu-0.2.7.orig/config.mk	2017-12-21 14:20:24.000000000 +0100
-+++ zathura-djvu-0.2.7/config.mk	2017-12-31 00:41:02.580154770 +0100
-@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
- DESKTOPPREFIX ?= ${PREFIX}/share/applications
- 
- # libs
-+GTK_INC ?= $(shell pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0)
-+GTK_LIB ?= $(shell pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0)
-+
- CAIRO_INC ?= $(shell pkg-config --cflags cairo)
- CAIRO_LIB ?= $(shell pkg-config --libs cairo)
- 
-@@ -34,8 +37,8 @@
- PLUGINDIR = ${LIBDIR}/zathura
- endif
- 
--INCS = ${GIRARA_INC} ${GLIB_INC} ${DJVU_INC} ${CAIRO_INC} ${ZATHURA_INC}
--LIBS = ${GIRARA_LIB} ${GLIB_LIB} ${DJVU_LIB} ${CAIRO_LIB}
-+INCS = ${GIRARA_INC} ${GLIB_INC} ${DJVU_INC} ${CAIRO_INC} ${ZATHURA_INC} ${GTK_INC}
-+LIBS = ${GIRARA_LIB} ${GLIB_LIB} ${DJVU_LIB} ${CAIRO_LIB} ${GTK_LIB}
- 
- # pre-processor flags
- CPPFLAGS += -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64