Getting only necessary headers out of boost

Question

I need to submit an assignment, but I only want to include the header files from boost that I actually used (I made use of boost::shared_ptr and boost::function). I tried doing so manually, but I'm missing some header files and everytime i go to add them, it turns out I'm missing more. Is there a quick easy way to find out exactly what headers I actually need?

Thanks

Answer 1

The bcp command is made for this:

NAME

   bcp - extract subsets of Boost

SYNOPSIS

   bcp --list [options] module-list
   bcp [options] module-list output-path
   bcp --report [options] module-list html-file
   bcp --help

DESCRIPTION

   Copies all the files, including dependencies, found in module-list to
   output-path. output-path must be an existing path.

But you will probably be surprised to see just how interdependent these Boost headers are.

Answer 2

There is a tool called bcp to do exactly that -- copy out the parts of Boost you need and no more.