Question

Looking through the MSDN, I would say no; however, I thought I would ask here before I give up.

Is there a preprocessor option for Visual Studios that displays when a header file is included? Specifically, I’m looking for something similar to /verbose:lib described in the link below.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/wdsk6as6%28v=VS.80%29.aspx

Answer 1

The switch /showIncludes (List Include Files) is what you are looking for, as documented in MSDN. Here is a sample of the output produced by that switch:

Given the file main.c, consisting of:

#include "foo.h"

and the file foo.h, consisting of:

#include "bar.h"

The output produced is:

Note: including file: d:\temp\foo.h
Note: including file:  d:\temp\bar.h