Summary

Find and optionally remove unneeded includes in C or C++ sourcefiles.

deheader analyzes C and C++ files to determine which header inclusions can be removed while still allowing them to compile. This may result in substantial improvements in compilation time, especially on large C++ projects; it also sometimes exposes dependencies and cohesions of which developers were unaware.

Resources

COPYING project license README roadmap file deheader-1.7.tar.gz gzipped source tarball NEWS project news deheader.html HTML rendering of deheader.1

The project repository is at https://gitlab.com/esr/deheader.

Project statistics are available at OpenHub.

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Recent Changes

Use moern GCC error format for failure messages. Fix filename of header for (f)statvfs.

Supporters

This work is funded by...

My Bronze supporters: Martin Hohenberg, Jae Yang, Daniel Garber, Kyle Burkholder, Mike Nichols, Mark Ping, Tom Taylor, Arnold F. Williams, George Brower, Michael Nygard, Brendan Long, Sven Dowideit, Dave Witten, Jonathan Cast, James Cronin, David L. Jessup, Christopher Chang, Killer Delicious, Jacob Lyles, Neil Anuskiewicz, Mordant, Clemens Ladisch, Wojciech Woytniak, Masa Bando, John Carmack, Xingyu Wang, Jane Tang, Steven Evans, Jan Roudaut, Hsueh Sung, Ken LaCrosse, taishi28012, John Simpson, Jerod Tufte, Paul Abbott, Stan Witherspoon, Donald Greer, Gratiela Chergu, Michael Ciagala, Dale Carstensen, Chip Davis, Liudmilla Karukina, Jim McCloskey, Dewey Sasser, Hal Hildebrand, Connor Wood, Ken Kennedy, darrin, Mark Gardner, William Christensen, Malcolm Ocean, Rod Davenport, Nodarius Darjania, Cheryl Evry, Wenfeng Liang, Irving Rivas, Bill Soistman, ReallyBored, Άρης Δάσος, Ron Lauzon, TheFred, Paul Theodoropolous, Doug Phillips, Les Vogel, Matt Pollard, Andres Cordova, Umgeher Torgersen, Syeed Ali.

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