diff --git a/bypy/linux/__main__.py b/bypy/linux/__main__.py
index 66eef7f96a..6874f196ce 100644
--- a/bypy/linux/__main__.py
+++ b/bypy/linux/__main__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def binary_includes():
              ' webp webpmux webpdemux sharpyuv exslt ncursesw readline chm hunspell-1.7 hyphen'
              ' icudata icui18n icuuc icuio stemmer gcrypt gpg-error uchardet graphite2 espeak-ng'
              ' brotlicommon brotlidec brotlienc zstd podofo ssl crypto deflate tiff onnxruntime'
-             ' gobject-2.0 glib-2.0 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gio-2.0 dbus-glib-1').split()
+             ' gobject-2.0 glib-2.0 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gio-2.0 dbus-glib-1 lcms2').split()
         )) + [
             # debian/ubuntu for for some typical stupid reason use libpcre.so.3
             # instead of libpcre.so.0 like other distros. And Qt's idiotic build
diff --git a/bypy/macos/__main__.py b/bypy/macos/__main__.py
index e0644cb2ea..f5108bb563 100644
--- a/bypy/macos/__main__.py
+++ b/bypy/macos/__main__.py
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ class Freeze:
     @flush
     def add_poppler(self):
         print('\nAdding poppler')
-        for x in ('libopenjp2.7.dylib', 'libpoppler.130.dylib',):
+        for x in ('libopenjp2.7.dylib', 'libpoppler.130.dylib', 'liblcms2.2.dylib',):
             self.install_dylib(join(PREFIX, 'lib', x))
         for x in ('pdftohtml', 'pdftoppm', 'pdfinfo', 'pdftotext'):
             self.install_dylib(
diff --git a/bypy/windows.conf b/bypy/windows.conf
index 289e0c46e2..c00738d550 100644
--- a/bypy/windows.conf
+++ b/bypy/windows.conf
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 # Copy opengl32sw.dll from
 # https://download.qt.io/development_releases/prebuilt/llvmpipe/windows/
 # to C:/mesa/64
+# Install MESON and NINJA using the MSI from the meson github releases page
 
 vm_name 'windows-calibre'
 root 'C:/r'
diff --git a/src/calibre/test_build.py b/src/calibre/test_build.py
index c825cb30ad..5c713f0597 100644
--- a/src/calibre/test_build.py
+++ b/src/calibre/test_build.py
@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ class BuildTest(unittest.TestCase):
         from html5_parser import parse
         parse('<p>xxx')
 
+    def test_poppler(self):
+        import subprocess
+
+        from calibre.ebooks.pdf.pdftohtml import PDFTOHTML, popen
+        p = popen([PDFTOHTML, '--help'], stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL)
+        if p.wait() != 0:
+            raise RuntimeError(f'pdftohtml --help failed with return code: {p.returncode}')
+
     def test_bs4(self):
         import bs4
         import soupsieve