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Cppcheck

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About

The original name of this program is "C++check" but it was later changed to "cppcheck".

Manual

A manual is available online:

http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/manual.pdf

Compiling

Any C++11 compiler should work. For compilers with partial C++11 support it may work. If

your compiler has the C++11 features that are available in Visual Studio 2010 then it

will work. If nullptr is not supported by your compiler then this can be emulated using

the header lib/cxx11emu.h.

To build the GUI, you need Qt.

When building the command line tool, PCRE is optional. It is used if you build with rules.

There are multiple compilation choices:

* qmake - cross platform build tool

* Windows: Visual Studio

* Windows: Qt Creator + mingw

* gnu make

* g++

qmake

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You can use the gui/gui.pro file to build the GUI.

cd gui

qmake

make

Visual Studio

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Use the cppcheck.sln file. The rules are normally enabled.

To compile with rules (pcre dependency):

* the pcre dll is needed. it can be downloaded from:

http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/pcre-8.10-vs.zip

To compile without rules (no dependencies):

* remove the preprocessor define HAVE_RULES from the project

* remove the pcre.lib from the project

Qt Creator + mingw

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The PCRE dll is needed to build the CLI. It can be downloaded here:

http://software-download.name/pcre-library-windows/

gnu make

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Simple build (no dependencies):

make

The recommended release build is:

make SRCDIR=build CFGDIR=cfg HAVE_RULES=yes

Flags:

SRCDIR=build : Python is used to optimise cppcheck

CFGDIR=cfg : Specify folder where .cfg files are found

HAVE_RULES=yes : Enable rules (pcre is required if this is used)

g++ (for experts)

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If you just want to build Cppcheck without dependencies then you can use this command:

g++ -o cppcheck -std=c++0x -include lib/cxx11emu.h -Iexternals/tinyxml -Ilib cli/*.cpp lib/*.cpp externals/tinyxml/*.cpp

If you want to use --rule and --rule-file then dependencies are needed:

g++ -o cppcheck -std=c++0x -include lib/cxx11emu.h -lpcre -DHAVE_RULES -Ilib -Iexternals/tinyxml cli/*.cpp lib/*.cpp externals/tinyxml/*.cpp

mingw

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The "LDFLAGS=-lshlwapi" is needed when building with mingw

mingw32-make LDFLAGS=-lshlwapi

other compilers/ide

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1. Create a empty project file / makefile.

2. Add all cpp files in the cppcheck cli and lib folders to the project file / makefile.

3. Compile.

Cross compiling Win32 (CLI) version of Cppcheck in Linux

sudo apt-get install mingw32

make CXX=i586-mingw32msvc-g++ LDFLAGS="-lshlwapi"

mv cppcheck cppcheck.exe

Webpage

http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net/