Tool to track #include dependencies [closed]

Question

Any good suggestions? Input will be the name of a header file and output should be a list (preferably a tree) of all files including it directly or indirectly.

Answer 1

Good news: redhat Source-Navigator (runs on Windows too). Of course, compiler switches (mentioned earlier) have superior parsing and I'm not sure how this will handle MFC, Qt and their magic keywords.

Answer 2

Understand for C++ should be able to help you: it builds a database that you can access from Perl.

Answer 3

If you have access to GCC/G++, then the -M option will output the dependency list. It doesn't do any of the extra stuff that the other tools do, but since it is coming from the compiler, there is no chance that it will pick up files from the "wrong" place.

Answer 4

Thanks to KeithB. I looked up the docs for cl.exe (VS2008) and found the /showIncludes flag. From the IDE, this can be set from the property page of any CPP file.

Answer 5

cscope (http://cscope.sourceforge.net/) does this in a standalone xterm, and also can be used inside your favorite editor - it has great emacs and vi/vim support.