getting started with C in gps environment

All I really wanted was gvd, but that doesn't seem to be available 
anymore.  So
I've tried gps on both windows and linux.  Under windows, creating a 
project doesn't
create a make file and the few available makefiles don't seem to be good 
patterns
for creating a C project.  On Linux, creating a project does create a 
makefile, but
it's broken.  I'm perfectly capable of building programs outside of the 
GUI, but
it's annoying to have all this extra cruft (beyond the debugger) and not 
be able to use it.

Suppose I wanted to create a project to build "hello world", what are 
the minimum
steps required ?

Geoffrey Brown