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Re: Generating a parseable #include dependency graph from a project?
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Re: Generating a parseable #include dependency graph from a project?


  • Subject: Re: Generating a parseable #include dependency graph from a project?
  • From: Doug Hill <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:25:48 -0800

Hello Jens,

The preproccesor generates this dependency information.

Select file in project>Right-click>Preprocess

With some good scripting Fu you should be able to extract just the pertinent header file lines and use their order to generate a dependency tree.

In any case, good luck! Let us know how it goes.

Doug Hill

On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:

Is there a way to get a textual representation of which files in a project transitively #include which other files? For example, a text file where each line lists a source file path and the the paths of all the headers it depends on.

I'm trying to cut builds times of a huge C++ project I work on; I noticed that a header file I'm editing triggers many hundreds of files to be recompiled when it really shouldn't. I've been weeding out unnecessary #include lines for an hour and have improved the situation quite a bit; but it would be a lot easier if I could write some kind of simple script to parse a dependency file and show me what headers are the most dependent-upon and who's including them.

(I've poked around inside the project and its build/ folder; I'm guessing this info might be in the "imports.pbxtree" file, but it's in some cryptic binary format.)

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