diff --git a/ports/pixman/CMakeLists.txt b/ports/pixman/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 06643c30cf8e0c..00000000000000
--- a/ports/pixman/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
-project(pixman VERSION 0.34.0 LANGUAGES C)
-
-set(CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX "d")
-
-if(UNIX)
-    add_definitions(-DHAVE_PTHREADS)
-endif()
-
-include_directories(".")
-
-file(GLOB SOURCES
-"pixman.c"
-"pixman-access.c"
-"pixman-access-accessors.c"
-"pixman-bits-image.c"
-"pixman-combine32.c"
-"pixman-combine-float.c"
-"pixman-conical-gradient.c"
-"pixman-filter.c"
-"pixman-x86.c"
-"pixman-mips.c"
-"pixman-arm.c"
-"pixman-ppc.c"
-"pixman-edge.c"
-"pixman-edge-accessors.c"
-"pixman-fast-path.c"
-"pixman-glyph.c"
-"pixman-general.c"
-"pixman-gradient-walker.c"
-"pixman-image.c"
-"pixman-implementation.c"
-"pixman-linear-gradient.c"
-"pixman-matrix.c"
-"pixman-noop.c"
-"pixman-radial-gradient.c"
-"pixman-region16.c"
-"pixman-region32.c"
-"pixman-solid-fill.c"
-"pixman-timer.c"
-"pixman-trap.c"
-"pixman-utils.c"
-)
-
-# pixman requires the three PACKAGE* definitions in order to compile.
-set(PIXMAN_DEFS 
-    PRIVATE
-    PACKAGE="pixman-1"
-    PACKAGE_VERSION="0.34.0"
-    PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=""
-)
-
-if(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL arm64 OR VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL arm)
-    # don't enable SSE2 for arm64-windows and arm-windows
-else()
-    # The USE_SSE2 definition lets it use SSE2 instructions for speed. Every x86/64 target machine should have SSE2 these days.
-    set(PIXMAN_DEFS ${PIXMAN_DEFS} USE_SSE2)
-    file(GLOB SSE2_SOURCES "pixman-sse2.c")
-    set(SOURCES ${SOURCES} ${SSE2_SOURCES})
-endif()
-
-add_library(pixman-1 ${SOURCES})
-target_include_directories(pixman-1 PUBLIC $<INSTALL_INTERFACE:include>)
-target_compile_definitions(pixman-1 ${PIXMAN_DEFS})
-
-if(USE_SSE2 AND UNIX AND CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 4)
-    target_compile_options(pixman-1 PRIVATE -msse2)
-endif()
-
-# pixman produces a lot of warnings which are disabled here because they otherwise fill up the log files
-if(MSVC)
-    target_compile_options(pixman-1 PRIVATE "/wd4244" "/wd4146" "/wd4996") #  PUBLIC "/D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS"
-endif()
-
-install(TARGETS pixman-1
-  EXPORT pixman-targets
-  RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
-  LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
-  ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
-)
-
-install(
-    EXPORT pixman-targets
-    NAMESPACE unofficial::pixman::
-    FILE unofficial-pixman-config.cmake
-    DESTINATION share/unofficial-pixman
-)
diff --git a/ports/pixman/CONTROL b/ports/pixman/CONTROL
index a9e21f833a2384..6dbd573ffccfaa 100644
--- a/ports/pixman/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/pixman/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: pixman
-Version: 0.38.4
-Port-Version: 2
+Version: 0.40.0
 Homepage: https://www.cairographics.org/releases
 Description: Pixman is a low-level software library for pixel manipulation, providing features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization.
+Build-Depends: libpng, tool-meson
diff --git a/ports/pixman/portfile.cmake b/ports/pixman/portfile.cmake
index 25bbd2d04869f7..298912f041e203 100644
--- a/ports/pixman/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/pixman/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,43 +1,57 @@
-vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY)
-
-set(PIXMAN_VERSION 0.38.4)
+if(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_WINDOWS)
+    vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY) # Meson is not able to automatically export symbols for DLLs
+endif()
+
+if(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_UWP)
+    list(APPEND OPTIONS
+            -Dmmx=disabled
+            -Dsse2=disabled
+            -Dssse3=disabled)
+elseif(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL "x86")
+    set(VCPKG_CXX_FLAGS "/arch:SSE2 ${VCPKG_CXX_FLAGS}")
+    set(VCPKG_C_FLAGS "/arch:SSE2 ${VCPKG_C_FLAGS}")
+    list(APPEND OPTIONS
+            -Dmmx=enabled
+            -Dsse2=enabled
+            -Dssse3=enabled)
+elseif(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL "x64")
+    #x64 in general has all those intrinsics. (except for UWP for some reason)
+    list(APPEND OPTIONS
+            -Dmmx=enabled
+            -Dsse2=enabled
+            -Dssse3=enabled)
+elseif(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE MATCHES "arm")
+   list(APPEND OPTIONS
+               #-Darm-simd=enabled does not work with arm64-windows
+               -Dmmx=disabled
+               -Dsse2=disabled
+               -Dssse3=disabled
+       )
+endif()
+
+set(PIXMAN_VERSION 0.40.0)
 vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
     URLS "https://www.cairographics.org/releases/pixman-${PIXMAN_VERSION}.tar.gz"
     FILENAME "pixman-${PIXMAN_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-    SHA512 b66dc23c0bc7327cb90085cbc14ccf96ad58001a927f23af24e0258ca13f32d4255535862f1efcf00e9e723410aa9f51edf26fb01c8cde49379d1225acf7b5af
+    SHA512 063776e132f5d59a6d3f94497da41d6fc1c7dca0d269149c78247f0e0d7f520a25208d908cf5e421d1564889a91da44267b12d61c0bd7934cd54261729a7de5f
 )
 vcpkg_extract_source_archive_ex(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     ARCHIVE ${ARCHIVE}
     REF ${PIXMAN_VERSION}
+    PATCHES remove_test_demos.patch
 )
-
-file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman)
-
-vcpkg_configure_cmake(
-    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman
-    PREFER_NINJA
-)
-
-vcpkg_install_cmake()
-
-vcpkg_fixup_cmake_targets(CONFIG_PATH share/unofficial-pixman TARGET_PATH share/unofficial-pixman)
-
-# Copy the appropriate header files.
-file(COPY
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman.h"
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman-accessor.h"
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman-combine32.h"
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman-compiler.h"
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman-edge-imp.h"
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman-inlines.h"
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman-private.h"
-    "${SOURCE_PATH}/pixman/pixman-version.h"
-    DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include
+# Meson install wrongly pkgconfig file!
+vcpkg_configure_meson(
+    SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
+    OPTIONS ${OPTIONS}
+            -Dlibpng=enabled
 )
+vcpkg_install_meson()
+vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig()
 
-# Handle copyright
-file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/pixman)
-file(RENAME ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/pixman/COPYING ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/pixman/copyright)
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include")
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/share")
 
-vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
+# # Handle copyright
+file(INSTALL "${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING" DESTINATION "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}" RENAME copyright)
diff --git a/ports/pixman/remove_test_demos.patch b/ports/pixman/remove_test_demos.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..18efbdc2f9b47d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/pixman/remove_test_demos.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index 1cec22728..fa6199ed0 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -528,8 +528,8 @@ version_conf.set('PIXMAN_VERSION_MICRO', split[2])
+ add_project_arguments('-DHAVE_CONFIG_H', language : ['c'])
+ 
+ subdir('pixman')
+-subdir('test')
+-subdir('demos')
++# subdir('test')
++# subdir('demos')
+ 
+ pkg = import('pkgconfig')
+ pkg.generate(
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index f45c801d233d49..71a33498dc7744 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -4517,8 +4517,8 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "pixman": {
-      "baseline": "0.38.4",
-      "port-version": 2
+      "baseline": "0.40.0",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "platform-folders": {
       "baseline": "4.0.0",
diff --git a/versions/p-/pixman.json b/versions/p-/pixman.json
index 6daee6513416f1..46795f70da7ed0 100644
--- a/versions/p-/pixman.json
+++ b/versions/p-/pixman.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "9ac4606b446e1469fad7e0f8917a45cbdd1de388",
+      "version-string": "0.40.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "3cb6610f632460553bb2ae5fe3838e15880dc7e2",
       "version-string": "0.38.4",