Jeff Garland wrote:
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.
Right, the answer to the question depends upon your definition of "depends on". Generally it's best to ask this question of a specific header rather than a whole library (which pulls in testing and example program dependencies). bcp also has a scan mode that will scan *your code* for Boost dependencies, but even then you may get misleading results - see the shared_ptr example in the docs for an explanation. It's really annoying when the simple things turn out to be hard isn't it? :-) John.