cccl | Unix cc compiler to Microsoft 's cl compiler wrapper

First, you'll want to install cccl. Then, you'll probably want to learn using autotools and MSVC together.
Obviously you'll want cccl to be in your path. Since cccl directly invokes cl.exe, you'll need to make sure it is in your path as well. This may have been done for you during your Visual Studio install. If not, there should be a file called vcvars32.bat or vcvarsall.bat which can be run from an MS-DOS command prompt to set your path. Visual Studio usually installs a menu item to run a Visual Studio Command Prompt and is commonly under the Visual Studio Tools menu. This invokes one of the aforementioned batch files. Refer to the documentation included with Visual Studio for more details about running the Visual Studio command line tools. Note that the GNU linker is also called link.exe and is usually present in Cygwin and MinGW, but this shouldn't be a problem as cccl does not invoke the linker directly, it relies on cl.exe to invoke the appropriate Microsoft linker.