#Include Question

[superchief]

I have a simple vc++ win32 program. I have one header that has a list of all
the other header files in it. In each of the .cpp files i make a referance to
this main header. is there a way of getting around this, so i only have to
make one header (listing all the includes i ever would like in the program)
and then reference this once in one main file somewhere?

I am a bit new to the c++ compiler so this doesn't appear to be obvious to me.

Thanks for your help

[Jürgen Devlieghere]

Well, I don't think there is a way to avoid including your
'superchief-include-file', since the compiler must get it's definitions
somewhere.

On the other hand, putting all possible includes is not very nice, certainly
not in bigger projects: 1 change in some include file makes a full
recompilation necessary, since the compiler can no longer see the
dependencies.

Jürgen Devlieghere
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I have a simple vc++ win32 program. I have one header that has a list of
all
the other header files in it. In each of the .cpp files i make a referance
to
this main header. is there a way of getting around this, so i only have to
make one header (listing all the includes i ever would like in the
program)
and then reference this once in one main file somewhere?

I am a bit new to the c++ compiler so this doesn't appear to be obvious to
me.

Thanks for your help

[Jochen Kalmbach [MVP]]

Hi Jürgen!

On the other hand, putting all possible includes is not very nice, certainly
not in bigger projects: 1 change in some include file makes a full
recompilation necessary, since the compiler can no longer see the
dependencies.

But it is a very good aproch if your use precompiled headers. Then you
normally only need *one* include file (stdafx.h; which contains
everything you need) and the compile-time is very fast...
--
Greetings
Jochen

My blog about Win32 and .NET
http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/

[John Gabriel]

Yes. I think you can do this easily - Just use a preprocessor directive so
that the include files are processed only once, i.e

#ifndef ALL_INCLUDED
#include "h1.h"
#include "h2.h"
#define ALL_INCLUDED
#endif

Or maybe I misunderstood your question?

"superchief" wrote:

I have a simple vc++ win32 program. I have one header that has a list of all
the other header files in it. In each of the .cpp files i make a referance to
this main header. is there a way of getting around this, so i only have to
make one header (listing all the includes i ever would like in the program)
and then reference this once in one main file somewhere?

I am a bit new to the c++ compiler so this doesn't appear to be obvious to me.

Thanks for your help

[superchief]

I will try this method and see if it works, thanks.

Also thanks to Jurgen and Jochen for their help

"John Gabriel" wrote:

Yes. I think you can do this easily - Just use a preprocessor directive so
that the include files are processed only once, i.e

#ifndef ALL_INCLUDED
#include "h1.h"
#include "h2.h"
#define ALL_INCLUDED
#endif

Or maybe I misunderstood your question?

"superchief" wrote:

I have a simple vc++ win32 program. I have one header that has a list of all
the other header files in it. In each of the .cpp files i make a referance to
this main header. is there a way of getting around this, so i only have to
make one header (listing all the includes i ever would like in the program)
and then reference this once in one main file somewhere?

I am a bit new to the c++ compiler so this doesn't appear to be obvious to me.

Thanks for your help