Using Kdevelop for non-Kdevelop projects

[Richard Apodaca]

Hello,

I'm a new KDE user and I'd like to be able to use Kdevelop (1.1) to view, edit,
and compile C++ sources that were not generated with Kdevelop.  Could
someone point me to step-by-step instructions for doing this?

I'm able to import source files into a custom ("empty") project, but from there
I'm not able to compile.  I've looked at automake and autoconf, but is there
something simpler?

Thanks in advance.