C++, the “Old Fashioned” way

Question

I have been learning C++ in school to create small command-line programs.

However, I have only built my projects with IDEs, including VS08 and QtCreator.

I under

Answer 1

This is what has helped me to learn the autoconf, automake, ...:

http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/~mmann/HowTo/automake.html

It is a nice tutorial progresses from a simple helloworld to more advanced structures with libraries etc.