Displaying the #include hierarchy for a C++ file in Visual Studio
Problem: I have a large Visual C++ project that I'm trying to migrate to Visual Studio 2010. It's a huge mix of stuff from various sources and of various ages. I'm getting problems because something is including both winsock.h
and winsock2.h
.
Question: What tools and techniques are there for displaying the #include
hierarchy for a Visual Studio C++ source file?
I know about cl /P
for getting the preprocessor output, but that doesn't clearly show which file includes which other files (and in this case the /P
output is 376,932 lines long 8-)
In a perfect world I'd like a hierarchical display of which files include which other files, along with line numbers so I can jump into the sources:
source.cpp(1)
windows.h(100)
winsock.h
some_other_thing.h(1234)
winsock2.h
There is a setting:
Project Settings -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Advanced -> Show Includes
that will generate the tree. It maps to the compiler switch /showIncludes
The compiler also supports a /showIncludes switch -- it doesn't give you line numbers, but can give a pretty comprehensive view of which includes come from where.
It's under Project Settings -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> Advanced -> Show Includes.