Generate dep file from CPP file- to use with nmake

Noame has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,
 
I would like to write Perl script to generate dependencies files based
+ on cpp files.
The script have to run on all *.cpp files under current directory and 
+for each of them to retrieve his dependencies list.
The script should to look for the other header files according to $INC
+LUDE variable.
Finally, the script should to write the result to make.dep (namke form
+at) file as describe below
 
        .\FILE1.CPP : \
                "..\..\inc\ADVISOR.H"\
                "..\..\inc\audittrail.h"\
                "..\..\inc\Cimr.h"\
 
        .\FILE2.CPP : \
                "..\..\inc\corba\corbastructdefs.h"\
                "..\..\inc\DBFCLASS.H"\
                "..\..\INC\dbfs.h"\
 
        .\FILE3.CPP : \
               "..\..\INC\dbfs_c_struct.h"\
                "..\..\inc\dynadbfs.h"\
                "..\..\inc\errorlog.h"\
                "..\..\INC\FSP.H"\ 

The file.dep will include information about all the *.cpp files under 
+the current directory.I need to automatically build the list of depen
+dency files, for nmake so I don't need to recompile everything when I
+ change a header file.

Please let me know if you have any script to implement it, or any algo
+rithm to perform it....

Thank you for your help,
Jona.
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my Question is more complicated.I've wrote Perl script to build my applications using 'nmake' command and base on 'MAK' and 'DEP' files that were generated from Visual C++ based on 'DSP' files. Today, I'm generating 'MAK' and 'DEP' files from Visual C++ to my project and then using them to build my application with 'nmake' command from Unix The 'MAK' is product of 'DSP' files and I don't have problem to generate from Visual C++ to my requirement.I found that Visual C++ can generated 'DEP' file as well, but it generate it just if the project was compiled and already has 'vc60.idb' file.'vc60.idb' file is an internal DB file of Visual C++ that include information about the project like the dependency relations...I don't want to compile each time my project via Visual C++ and then generate the DEP file - I would like to avoid from my dependence in that tool...Therefore, I would like to write or use any tool to generate 'DEP' files independently that 'nmake' command can use/read them.I Hope that my explanations are clear enough and you can help me or give me any idea...Thanks

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Re: Generate dep file from CPP file- to use with nmake by roboticus (Chancellor) on Apr 13, 2008 at 14:11 UTC
Noame: If you're wanting to write it to learn more perl and C++, then have fun. But if you're just interested in having a tool to do the job, you might want to download gcc--it already has a command-line option to generate dependency files (the -M series, IIRC). If your format constraints are particular enough you could follow it with a perl script to clean it up. ...roboticus	[reply]
Re^2: Generate dep file from CPP file- to use with nmake by Noame (Beadle) on Apr 14, 2008 at 05:41 UTC

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Re: Generate dep file from CPP file- to use with nmake by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 13, 2008 at 14:59 UTC
If you want fast results, check automake.	[reply]
Re: Generate dep file from CPP file- to use with nmake by tinita (Parson) on Apr 13, 2008 at 14:09 UTC
as suggested before, please put only the code part of your posting into code-tags.	[reply]