What is Glade & wGLADE?
Glade is a RAD tool for generating a GTK front-end quickly and easily . Once the front-end is to your liking, with buttons, text boxes, input boxes etc., Glade automatically generates source code in C with callback functions into which you insert your own code. (For more on Glade, visit: glade.gnome.org). wGLADE is the customized & easy-to-install version of Glade for the windows platform. Above, you will see a screenshot of a simple application that was created using wGLADE. Most of the articles covering Glade available on the Net have been bundled with wGLADE in its latest version.

• Make tool & a makefile for your projects
• Some sample projects for you to compile
• All required libraries for GTK, GLib and GDK
• All necessary compilers and other tools
• All required header files.

Gtk4Win also works like winGTK, but it is a larger package, and offers more than the minimal set of libraries. In addition, it uses JAM instead of winGTK's make. You can install either of these packages for enabling GTK+ on windows, and both packages are stand-alone, containing all necessary GCC compilers and libraries.

Please Note: The source of these libraries can be had from http://gimp.org/win32

What is Libglade?
Libglade is a library which can be used to load Glade interfaces at runtime. Robert Laing puts it: "By leaving Glade's output as data to be loaded at runtime by libglade, the end user can manipulate the application's foo.glade file to tweak things such as menu names and hot-keys to personal taste. And developers get to experiment WYSIWYG with their application's look without needing to constantly edit and recompile."

Which package do I choose from the above?
The choice between Dev-C++, winGTK and GTK4Win will depend on the work you want to do, and how you like to operate. winGTK would be ideal if you want the minimum required to make Glade projects with full GTK+ support. Also, if you want to use wGLADE with the minimum of fuss regarding compilation of projects, you might go in for winGTK. If you need full library support for your gcc compiler (including gcc's source code), then you might require the larger GTK4Win package. Windows programmers who like to work in a GUI environment might like to use Dev-C++ with DevEx.