Vim and compiling

[Fredrik Jagenheim <humming@pobox.com>]

Ok, so I made the decision to switch to vim from being an emacs user a
year or so ago. Today, I realized that I missed a feature that emacs
has in vim. Ofcourse, I figured there was a way to do this; but I
cannot find it.

What I want is the 'M-x make' functionality. Something that compiles
my program and tells me which lines in the source the compiler error
is on. Should ofcourse jump to the correct (or should that be 'wrong')
line also. :)

I'd like to do this in the languages of C and Perl.

TIA,
//Humming