Tool for displaying call graph

[manannan]

Hello,

Would there be a free tool for parsing a bunch of .cpp files and generating a static function call graph of an application, including calls to virtual functions and preferably thread creation?

[siavoshkc]

My IDE does it.

[maxorator]

Kde?

[siavoshkc]

I mean MSVC, but kde may does, I didn't try.

[Salem]

Perhaps http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/
One thing I like about it is that you can export the databases as text files, so you can do a lot more digging around looking for information than what the GUI front-end allows you to do.

[manannan]

Kde?

I'm working under Windows, actually. Visual Studio 2005 allows me to build something like a one-vertex-at-a-time call graph, but it's slow and inconvenient.
I can easily run Linux under a VM, though.

My IDE does it.

Mine doesn't.
What IDE are you using?

[siavoshkc]

What IDE are you using?

Visual Studio 2005.

I'm working under Windows, actually. Visual Studio 2005 allows me to build something like a one-vertex-at-a-time call graph, but it's slow and inconvenient.

Slow? Inconvenient? Why?

[manannan]

Slow? Inconvenient? Why?

For one, because AFAIK you have to pick a function, and manually expand the call list for each of the functions it calls. Finally you wind up with a call tree, which contains lots of duplicate entries and makes it difficult to see the big picture. I'm looking for a tool with output which looks like GraphViz's.

Perhaps http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/

I'll check out sourcenav and see what it's about, thanks.

[siavoshkc]

For one, because AFAIK you have to pick a function, and manually expand the call list for each of the functions it calls.

It is good because of this. Anyway you can pick main function to see all calls.
Why you wanna see the call graph? For exprience?