How to auto-include all headers in directory

Question

I\'m going through exercises of a C++ book. For each exercise I want to minimize the boilerplate code I have to write. I\'ve set up my project a certain way but it doesn\'t seem

Answer 1

writing a makefile rule to pass the name of the executable as a -DHEADERFILE=something parameter to the compiler shouldn't be difficult at all. Something like:

%.exe : %.h %.cpp main.cpp
    gcc -o $< -DHEADER_FILE=$

OTOH, I don't know if #include does macro expansion on the filename.