Re: [Boost-users] Dependencies between boost libraries

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-08 08:08:47

John Maddock wrote:
> Loïc Joly wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was curious to know wether there was somewhere available a graph of
>> dependencies between boost libraries ?
> 
> No, but the bcp tool can almost do what you want - in report mode it will 
> output a dependency analysis for a specific library or header, see 
> http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html

I'll just point out that things are more complicated than the 'answers' 
provided by bcp.  As an example, date_time depends on serialization, but only 
if you actually include specific date_time serialization headers.  Since bcp 
just mechanically traces dependencies it can't *know* that if you don't want 
to user serialization that dependency and any that serialization pulls in goes 
away.

Jeff