Command line options

Command line options

-c, --configuration=<file>

Optional argument, used to specify a configuration XML file containing options.

-v, --version

Show version information

-V, --verbose

Show more output while processing files. This will show each tag that it finds from each #include.

-D, --directory=<directory>

Specify directory to check. Checks all code files in the directory recursively: .cpp, .cxx, .c, .cc, .h, .hpp, .inl. When --directory is not specified, all extra arguments on the command line are parsed as files that need to be checked.

-x, --xmloutput=<file>

Specify file for xml output. This can be used to process the results of IncludeChecker, for example to remove all unused includes.

-I, --includepath=<directory>

Specify include path, multiple include paths can be given by passing in -I multiple times.

-E, --excludepath=<file or directory>

Specify header file or directory to ignore, multiple exclude paths can be given by passing in -E multiple times.

-i, --interfaceheader=<file>

Mark header file as interface header, multiple interface headers can be specified.

-t, --type_alias_prefix=<string>

Specify a prefix for type aliases.

-T, --type_alias_suffix=<string>

Specify a suffix for type aliases.

Example

IncludeChecker -I c:\dev\foo\include -I c:\dev\bar\include -t r -t rc -T Ptr -T Ref test.cpp