Removing unused includes

Question

Are there any tools which parse .h files and recommend the removal of #includes. For example if the defines in the include are not being used or if it is possible to do a forward declaration instead.

I work on both windows and linux platforms.

Suitor

possible duplicate of C/C++: Detecting superfluous #includes? – Vaccinia

This isn't a 'tool' but.. generally you won't have too many includes - you could just do it manually! comment out, compile - if it fails keep it otherwise remove it and then repeat. – Interim

a good answer to a similar question can be found here: https://mcmap.net/q/92478/-detecting-superfluous-includes-in-c-c – Workmanlike

Answer 1

include-what-you-use is intended to do this.

Affectation

Answer 2

ReDHead is a project for exactly that. It's an Eclipse plug-in.

Fritzie

Answer 3

I was looking for such tool some time ago and I now found out that this functionality is also provided by Resharper C++ plugin for Visual Studio.

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