'Make' supports wild card build and subdirectory recursion, but I would have to look up the syntax for it. This means you don't have to list all the files individually. Just make sure you don't have any stray files with the same extension as your modules because make will try to compile those.
When make fails, all you usually need to do is correct the file that bombed and type 'make' again. Unless the file you changed alters the dependencies, you don't usually need to 'make clean'.
*nix sockets is mostly the same as windoze since M$ stole their networking layer from Berkely sockets. There is no WSASetup() or WSACleanup() needed in *nix. Also, *nix uses the select() function to wait for activity on a socket.