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I looked around the GNU emacs material and didn't find anything helpful.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for setting up emacs, to basically turn it into an IDE? I'm looking for interfacing with gcc/gdb/make, etc...
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gcc is a debugger by GNU project. Gdb can step through your source code line-by-line or even instruction by instruction. You may also watch the value of any variable at run-time. In additon, it also helps to identify the place and the reason making the program crash.
Emacs provides a special interface to GDB, which uses extra Emacs windows to display the state of the debugged program. See GDB Graphical Interface. Emacs also has a built-in debugger for Emacs Lisp programs.
The Grand Unified Debugger, or GUD for short, is an Emacs major mode for debugging. It works on top of command line debuggers. GUD handles interaction with gdb, dbx, xdb, sdb, perldb, jdb, and pdb, by default.
Like other answers mentioned, M-x compile, M-x gdb will get you going. While debugging, I'd also suggest gdb-many-windows-mode, which makes Emacs look a bit closer to IDE when debugging.
Besides that and to get closer to "IDE-like features", you can look at:
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