This is not really a tutorial - just a post to help anyone using Glade 3.8.4 (GTK2) on Mint 16 (Petra).

I found that Glade 3.8.4 crashes when creating a dialogue box or when opening an existing glade file.

There was a similar problem with glade (below) but this was fixed in the 3.8.4 release.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702886

I checked the dependencies and noticed that the Mint 16 distro did not have required versions of two dependencies (gettext and pkg_config).

See http://braumeister.org/formula/glade for dependencies.

So I downloaded and built both gettext: 0.18.3.2 and pkg-config: 0.28.

I then removed glade and re-compiled glade - now I can open an existing glade file and create dialogue boxes successfully.

Glade 3.8.4 is available here: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glade3/3.8/glade3-3.8.4.tar.xz

Tom.