Do you know tool building tree of include files in project\file?

Question

Say, I\'d like to have a tool (or script?) taking project (or .h file) and building searchable tree of \"includes\" included into it (of included into of included into and s

Answer 1

Eclipse CDT has the Include Browser under Window --> Show View --> Other... --> C/C++ --> Include Browser.

Answer 2

Not entirely sure this is what you're after, but you can easily get a list of includes by generating the post-CPP-processed file from the base c file, and grepping out the file/line number comments, e.g., using gcc

gcc -E main.c {usual flags} | grep '#' | cut -d' ' -f3 | sort | uniq

where main.c is your base c file.

Answer 3

Include Finder is a pretty useful tool. It has some bugs, and hasn't been updated in a while, but the author does provide the source, so you can modify it to your liking.

Answer 4

If I remember correctly, doxygen can do this.

Answer 5

There exists a tool called include gardener, which can be found here: https://github.com/feddischson/include_gardener This gives you the include tree in dot or graphml (xml) format. But it does not consider other preprocessor statements like #if, #else, #endif.

Answer 6

I know this is an old question, a slightly more useful output than the gcc/g++ -E output alone would also used the -H flag (instead or in addition to):

g++ -H {my -I and other flags} -E -o /dev/null file.cpp

here is a sample output, tree structure helps figure out who included what as a bonus it also lists at the bottom which files may benefit from an include guard

. generated/gen-cpp/File.h
.. /usr/include/thrift/TProcessor.h
... /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/string
.... /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/c++config.h
..... /usr/include/bits/wordsize.h
..... /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/os_defines.h
...... /usr/include/features.h
....... /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h
........ /usr/include/bits/wordsize.h
....... /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h
........ /usr/include/bits/wordsize.h
........ /usr/include/gnu/stubs-64.h
..... /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/cpu_defines.h
.... /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../include/c++/4.4.6/bits/stringfwd.h

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