Adding LINT

[Joash29]

Hi

I've been testing out a few IDEs lately and have settled on CodeLite..it has everything ..i just need to integrate LINT now..Has anybody done it before?

[eranif]

Forgive my ignorance, but what does LINT does?
How do you invoke it?

If you could tell some details here, I will be able to help you out.

Eran

[Joash29]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Lint
PC Lint is commercial software that we use at work to check source code for discrepancies, basically a static code analyzer. Its been setup a long time ago and I've been through the manual but I cant make head or tail of it at the moment. Ive managed to setup the tool to lint a single file, but that means every function defined outside that c file throws an error. Is there an open source alternative?

Thanks for you time

[eranif]

You could try and run 'CppCheck'.
codelite has a plugin for it, and it should work out of the box.

Right click on your workspace / project and select -> 'CppCheck -> Run CppCheck'

This will perform a static code analyze of your workspace/project

Also, using the 'External Tools' plugin, you may consider the macros:

$(ProjectFiles) and $(ProjectFilesAbs) - the first one expands to a relative path and the later to absolute path

Those 2 macro will expand to a full space delimited list of the project files (the active project)

Eran

[Joash29]

Thanks ..CppCheck is helpful..