Third party .h files included all over my code

Question

I gathered a bunch of definitions from multiple third party.h files.

    // my_header.h
    #include   "thrd_party_header1.h"
    #include   "thrd_party_header2.h"

    #define MY_DEFINE_1     THRD_PARTY_DEFINE_1
    #define MY_DEFINE_2     THRD_PARTY_DEFINE_2
    //etc...

Problem is that now each class file including my_header.h "sees" all those 3rd party includes. I don't want that. What can I do to minimize the headers used in my.cpp?

Answer 1

Would this work?

//my_header.h
#ifdef SEE_DEFINES
#include "thrd_party_header1.h"
#include "thrd_party_header2.h"
#endif

Then you can include my_header.h without seeing the third party headers, and when you want to see them just do

#define SEE_DEFINES
#include "my_header.h"
#undef SEE_DEFINES