Re: [tlug] Need module dependence mapper

["Zev Blut" <zb@example.com>]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:32:39 +0900, Marcelo Martins <mhtmartins@example.com>  
wrote:

> I've been doing some code refactoring in a project I'm working on and
> after validating it with unit tests I believe I'll have finished it.
> In the near future, I need to make a presentation describing what have
> been done and why. What I would like to do is to generate graphs
> showing module dependencies before and after my modifications. Does
> anyone know if there is such tool for Linux? It needs to read source
> code (C) or objects and provide the dependence map as output[1].

Source Navigator is an oldie but goodie

http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/

It may not do everything you want, but it does make a few interactive  
graphs.

> [1] http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311

FYI, those graphs looke like they were generated by graphviz.
So here are number of tools I just googled that might do what you want  
with Graphviz:

http://flourish.org/cinclude2dot/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/scan-depends/
http://www.graphviz.org/Resources.php

I hope that helps.

Zev