Recompile files affected by change to .H ??
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I have a problem that changes to .H files do not automatically result in a recompilation of all the .CPP's that #include that header file. I have to click REBUILD ALL to effect the changes. I have been caught out a few times during debugging and I was wondering if there was something I missed in DEV-C++ options. I have actually had this same problem in other IDE's as well.
Perhaps there is a technical reason for this, but I thought it would be pretty easy just to search all the .CPP files in the project to see if they were dependant on the header that changed.
I hope I am not being ridiculously stupid with this question.
BlakJak :]
I'm probably the stupid one, as I still do a make clean: make just to make sure everything gets picked up right. I always thought it was force of habit and it takes longer, giving me more time to goof off.
;-)
Wayne
You could turn off "Use fast but imperfect dependency generation" under the compiler options. I haven't really tested this, but it should work. However, as you can probably deduce, it will be slower.
I believe I tried this before and it didn't work. I will try again and let people know.
BlakJak :]
This may not be the right answer, but I'll try anyway. I've noticed that if I make changes to a .h file, (such as a .h for a class, then make changes to the corresponding .cpp (or not)) I have to hit the little 'save' icon, so the changes are saved, then when I recompile the 'main' file, I'm o.k. If I don't save the changed file, it doesn't seem to pick up the changes.
Well I did my test today I can confirm that remove the tick on the Fast But Imperfect Dependencies does not help this problem.
Could be a request for imporvement.
BlakJak :]