Coding a eventual Unix C program in Visual Studio...help!

[sitko]

Hi,

I've not coded in C since College, and am now having to convert a VB.net app into a C program that will run on a Unix box (GNU Linux).

Our development environment is pure Windows, with Visual Studio.

My plan is to code this C program in a C++ Project in Visual Studio, and then ftp it over to a unix box we have access to (one of our clients boxes), and use a make file to compile it in gcc(if I remember that correctly), can anyone help me come up with a suitable make file, to use on the Unix box? I'm assuming that a make file will compile the C program...again this is very dated knowledge for me...

I've attempted to scan through the gcc man file, but first comment :

"LONGEST MAN FILE EVER!"

Thanks for any help/suggestions you can offer,
Sitko.

[weaknessforcats]

Isn't there a tool for Unix/Linux that generates the makefile from a project??

Writing a makefile takes me back to 1975. I didn't know people still did that.

[sitko]

I got a make file from my boss...but now I'm wondering what does the "rm" at the end of the make file do? does that zap the c file or does it just zap an intermediate file? and why does SHELL get set to something but then not used? Guess, I'll just try it...

CC = gcc
EFILE1 = DeckmakerC
SHELL = /bin/bash 
 
 
all: $(EFILE1)
 
$(EFILE1): $(EFILE1).c
    @$(CC) $(EFILE1).c -lm -o $(EFILE1) 
    @echo "Compiled executable \""$(EFILE1)"\""
 
clean:
    @rm $(EFILE1)
 

A follow-up question:
I want to make a file directory in my code. I know the Unix command is "mkdir <directory name>. How would I call this from the C code?

Thanks,
Sitko.