A quick-and-dirty python script to find invalid ClInclude nodes in VS 2010 projects

check_inc.py

#!/c/Python32/python.exe
import sys
import os.path
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

ns = '{http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003}'

filterTree = ET.parse(sys.argv[1]+".filters")
filterRoot = filterTree.getroot()
filterDict = dict()
missingDict = dict()

for inc in filterRoot.iter(ns+'ClInclude'):
	incFileRel = inc.get('Include')
	incFilter = inc.find(ns+'Filter')
	if incFileRel != None and incFilter != None:
		filterDict[incFileRel] = incFilter.text
		if incFilter.text not in missingDict:
			missingDict[incFilter.text] = []

projTree = ET.parse(sys.argv[1])
projRoot = projTree.getroot()

for inc in projRoot.iter(ns+'ClInclude'):
	incFileRel = inc.get('Include')
	if incFileRel != None:
		incFile = os.path.abspath( os.path.dirname(sys.argv[1]) +"\\"+ incFileRel )
		if not os.path.exists(incFile):
			missingDict[filterDict[incFileRel]].append(incFileRel)

for (missingGroup, missingList) in missingDict.items():
	if len(missingList) > 0:
		print("["+missingGroup+"]:")
		for missing in missingList:
			print("  " + os.path.basename(missing) + "   (" + missing + ")")