Using Cppcheck static analyzer tool in Qt Creator IDE

Cppcheck is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code. Unlike C/C++ compilers and many other analysis tools it does not detect syntax errors in the code. Cppcheck primarily detects the types of bugs that the compilers normally do not detect. The goal is to detect only real errors in the code (i.e. have zero false positives).

To understated more what a cppcheck as a static analyzer could help you for your project you could read this article from a commercial alternative website.

qtc-cppcheck is a Qt-Creator Plug-in which allow you to use cppcheck inside Qt-Creator.

Features

• Automatically check active project after build
• Automatically check active project’s files on save
• Manually check any project’s file
• Display found error in task pan (with marks in editor)
• Most settings are configurable

Screen-shots

Integrated CppCheck with QtCreator issue widget

Access from Tools QtCreator menu

Tool Settings in Analyzer QtCreator settings window

Download:

Download the compiled plug-in for your system and the QtCreator App you have from here.

Source could be downloaded from here.