Why don't I need to include headers in 4.15 anymore?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I just upgraded my project to 4.15 and VS2017 and I’ve noticed something very strange. I don’t need to include headers other than the standard ones any more.

By standard, I mean in my .h file I have the #include “MyActor.generated.h” and in the .cpp file I have the #include “MyProject.h” and #include “MyActor.h”

But beyond that, I don’t need to include any other project headers files any more. I can write code in my .h and .cpp files that clearly is referencing other actors and such from other source files, yet I am not including their headers at all and everything compiles and runs without complaining.

I’m kind of confused by this so I assume there must be some other project wide pre-compiled header going on somewhere that I can’t see or something like that. Can anyone explain?

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I don’t know about VS2017 but that sounds like a global user search path for headers. Might be worth investigating

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Have you tried packaging yet?

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On the very contrary… I must include exactly every single header now.
Your report sounds pretty weird to me, after IWYU set in place.

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Do you have them included in your Project.h file?
Or maybe your project is large enough that it decided to use unity build, and something else already included them?

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I’m on the same boat as Bruno. Now that I’m no longer including Engine.h I have to add every header of every class I’m using, which is actually fine even though sometimes it takes a bit to find out where the definition is as I’m not using Visual Studio.

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Clean your Intermediate and Saved folders for both the project and the engine. I’ll wager you’ll get hit with a million include errors right away.

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I’ve spent hours figuring out all the headers for a medium sized project. I bet there’s something off in your story :stuck_out_tongue:

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I tried creating a new blank project and added a couple of classes to it and it works as expected. If I try to use something from one class in the other without a header include I get errors as expected.

So I tried wiping out everything bar the Content, Source and Config folders in my main project, then regenerating the project files. I then rebuilt the project still with no errors!?!?! I blatantly have files using classes from other files with no header includes or nested header includes! What is happening. It is a pretty large project now as I’ve been working on it for a while now.

Maybe this new IWYU foo is causing odd things. I don’t have any includes in my project header, just the Engine.h. Maybe I should get rid of the Engine.h and start including individual Engine header files?

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Skipping including Engine.h will make it quicker when it comes to compiling… but you’ll definitely have to include all the single headers as you need them.

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Include Engine/Engine.h instead of the public Engine.h;
If you still have the same results than this a case for the X-Files tv series.