Using Texmaker with glossaries on Windows

The makeglossaries program is quite easy to use: if your main LaTeX file is called file.tex, then all that's needed is to run

makeglossaries file

To add a suitable action in Texmaker, just go to the

User > User commands > Edit User Commands

menu entry and, in the window that appears, add

makeglossaries

in the upper box (it's just the name which will be shown in the "User>User Commands" drop down menu) and

makeglossaries %

in the lower box. Then, in order to run makeglossaries on the current file, just choose the new menu item (or use the keyboard shortcut shown next to the menu entry). The % stands for the current file name (without extension), as explained in the window.

It's probably possible to define an action that concatenates executions of pdflatex, makeglossaries and pdflatex again, but I think it's not necessary to have glossaries synchronized at each compilation during document preparation. Just be confident that they will be when makeglossaries is run and pdflatex is run again.

To complement egreg's answer. A very simple way to integrate glossaries in Texmaker (windows) is to add automake in the usepackage{glossaries} option like this

\usepackage[automake]{glossaries}

This automatically makes the glossaries.

Credits to Niclola Talbot. Nic pointed out that this feature was "(Introduced in glossaries version 4.08.) This will try to get TeX to run the external applications ...."

For more, see Nic