Newby question on Glade2

["Gerald I. Evenden" <geraldi evenden gmail com>]

Host hardware: amd64. OS-flavor: kubuntu

I managed to successfully complete one of the tutorials on Glade2 by getting 
an example up and running and making a few personal tweaks to the project.
I feel that I am ready to progress to using Glade2 to provide a gui to 
frontend some software that is currently only executed by command-line.  To 
be sure, I will keep it simple and progress to more complex application as I 
learn.

However, at the moment I am at a loss as to how to incorporate software 
(either as local C files that I would rather not imbed into callbacks.c or 
external libraries) into the make system generated by the Glade2 'build' 
operation.  Admittedly, despite more that 20 years of C program, I am 
ignorant of anything but basic Make operations and totally overwelmed by the 
processes of 'autogen' and such.  I am a simple mathematician/cartographer 
and not and not capable of Stallmanesque gurumanship.

Is there some expanded documentation/tutorial that may cover the problem of a 
project involving non-gtk *.c/h files and non-gtk libraries not already 
referenced by the Glade2 system?

Many thanks.

PS: I am aware that there is a Glade3 but a binary does not seem to be 
available for my machine.