Socket Programming using C on linux

hi all,
i'm developing one client server chat application,for that i've got two files naming client.c and server.c under a folder called smallChat. My question is how to check this project is working in gcc,caz when i compile server.c it produces a.out and when i compile client.c it overwrites a.out. so help in running my project on gcc(linux)

thanks in advance,
Sri

change the output file. So try something like this:

gcc server.c -o server.out

and then

gcc client.c -o client.out

Now you'll have separate names that don't overwrite each other.

Check the automake, autoconf, etc (search autobook) utilities to make compilation/build process easy for you.