If you are coding GTK+ for win32 only, stop here and go to Glade for Win32.

GTK+ team has recently released development packages for win64, but without Glade, and there seems to be nobody working on it at this time. I spent nearly every night in this week on it and has just managed to get it work. This is my first time to build staffs from source, so I encountered and solved a lot of problems. I'm going to walk my path again and write it down, and hopefully it will help you.

Prerequisites

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• mingw-w64
  Download the latest complete toolchain. You can choose mingw-w64-bin_i686-mingw_*.zip that is a cross compiler toolchain working on both win32 and win64. If you own a copy of 64-bit Windows, you can also use mingw-w64-bin_x86_64-mingw_*.zip that is a native compiler toolchain for win64 only, which is also my situation.Unpack it to C:\mingw-w64 or anywhere as you wish, add C:\mingw-w64\bin to your Path environment variable.
• msys
  Download the latest version here (currently msysCORE-1.0.11-20080826.tar.gz), unpack it to C:\msys and add C:\msys\bin to your Path. Don't use the "Current Release" version 1.0.10, for it will crash on Windows Vista. You can create a desktop shortcut to msys.bat, which launches a Unix-like shell used to build our packages.
  
• GTK+ Development Packages
  Downloag the all-in-one bundle from the official GTK+ web site. Unpack it to C:\GTK or anywhere as you wish, add C:\GTK\bin to your Path, and set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to C:\GTK\lib\pkgconfig.
  You also need libjpeg and libtiff required by libglade we're going to build.
  
• Test Your Settings
  Open msys shell by running msys.bat, and execute make --version, gcc --version and pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0. Make sure you get outputs about version or make, version of gcc and the include directories of GTK+. If not, you'd better go through the above requirements again.

Now you're ready to compile. Glade depends on several libraries, and they seem to have no win64 binaries available too. In a nutshell, you need to build the following things one by one: libiconv, libxml2, libglade, hicolor-icon-theme and Glade3.

libiconv

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• Download libiconv
  Though the Official GTK+ site provides a small static library called win_iconv as a replacement for the much larger GNU libiconv, libxml prefers the latter for now. You get the latest source code of libiconv from here.
  
• Hack libtool
  libtool has a bug on windows. It treats all *.a files as static libraries which would cause linking fail. I don't know how to make it distinguish static and dynamic libraries, but since all we have now are dynamic ones, this hacking task becomes very simple.
  Open build-aux/ltmain.sh, navigate to function func_win32_libid(), delete the entire *ar\ archive*) case, and then change
  *ar\ archive\ import\ library*)
  to
  *ar\ archive*)
  Now libtool will treat every *.a file as an archive import library.
• Correct windres-options
  Sed expressions in windows/windres-options are wrong. Open this file and change
  sed_extract_major='/^[0-9]/{s/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p;q}
  a\
  0
  q
  '
  sed_extract_minor='/^[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9]/{s/^[0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p;q}
  a\
  0
  q
  '
  sed_extract_subminor='/^[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9]/{s/^[0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p;q}
  a\
  0
  q
  '
  to
  sed_extract_major='
  /^[0-9]/{s/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p
  q
  }
  a\
  0
  '
  sed_extract_minor='
  /^[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9]/{s/^[0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p
  q
  }
  a\
  0
  '
  sed_extract_subminor='
  /^[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9]/{s/^[0-9]*[.][0-9]*[.]\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p
  q
  }
  a\
  0
  '
• Build And Install
  

libxml2

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• Download libxml2
  Get the latest source here.
• Hack libtool
  Please refer to "libiconv". Notice ltmain.sh is in the root directory this time.
• Modify Source
  Open include/wsochcompat.h and delete #include <wspiapi.h>. wspiapi.h is actually not needed but leaving it would cause some linking errors.
  
• Build And Install

libglade

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• Download libglade And Hack libtool
  Get the latest source here.
• Build And Install

hicolor-icon-theme

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• Download hicolor-icon-theme
  Get the latest source here.
• Build And Install

Glade3

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• Download Glade3 And Hack libtool
  Get the latest source here.
• Correct The Code
  Open gladeui/glade-utils.h and delete these two functions:
  void glade_util_widget_set_tooltip(GtkWidget *widget, const gchar *str);
  gboolean glade_util_version_lesser_than(gdouble a, gdouble b);
  Open gladeui/glade-builtins.h and delete these two functions:
  guint glade_builtin_key_from_string(const gchar *string);
  const gchar *glade_builtin_string_from_key(guint key);
  These four functions have only declarations without implementations. Leaving them will cause linking errors.
  
• Build And Install
  Configure with GMSGFFMT=msgfmt.
  

Now you have a complete development tool set of GTK+ on win64.