QtCreator plugin for cppcheck, krazy and other tools

[cmazieri]

Hello,

This tool can used as qtcreator plugin to some other tools when using project files managed by qmake.

homepage is https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtprojecttool/

A manual and configuration files can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtprojecttool/files/

It works in Qt4 and Qt5.

Regards,
Carlos

[tobias.hunger]

How does that Creator plugin work?

You seem to just call the command line tool... how do you get the output from there into the build issues?

[cmazieri]

Hi,

When running inside Creator you must use the switch -qtc-plugin, it generates the issue pane.

The information in issues pane is generated after "cppcheck" or "krazy" finishes.

In the manual, the chapter "3 Using “qpt” with QtCreator (qtcreator)" gives an example.

Best Regards,
Carlos

[tobias.hunger]

How does it work technically? Is your plugin parsing the output of those tools and inserts the issues itself or is it using the task list plugin to display the list of issues?

[cmazieri]

When --qtc-plugin is NOT present, it just prints out the commands output "cppcheck" or "krazy"

When --qtc-plugin is present, it does:

parses the command output generating a tasks files,

         see http://qt-project.org/doc/qtcreator-2.6/creator-task-lists.html

call qtcreator back using the options: -client -pid, passing the tasks file, then qtcreator opens the tasks file and put the content into issues pane

After few time removes the tasks file

So, if you execute the "qpt" outside qtcreator using --qtc-plugin it should also works.

[tobias.hunger]

Cool, thanks for the information.

[angeFran]

Hi,
Is your plugin supposed to compile under Windows?

[cmazieri]

Yes, I took some care of it.

But I have not tested it since I do not use Windows.

If you have any problem let me know.

[angeFran]

my compiler doesn't seem to find include file
#include <unistd.h>

As far as I understand, it's a unix file only

[cmazieri]

YES, it is, try to remove this line.

[angeFran]

by removing that line, I have the following error

qcommandline.cpp:32:
error: C2491: 'QCommandLine::helpEntry' : definition of dllimport static data member not allowed

[cmazieri]

I am using this module QCommandLine, it is also open source and I got it from http://xf.iksaif.net/dev/qcommandline.html.

I am sorry, I am not able to help at this point unless I try to compile on Windows, I do not have any Windows compiler.

I think that is in the link process and you are close to compile it.

Once you get it compiled, qmake and qtcreator must be in the PATH in order to work.

Try to research about this problem or contact the QCommandLine author.

[bruceoutdoors]

I would recommend it, but given the hassle to set things up I'd give 4/5 stars. In addition to the manual, using windows there are couple of things to bear in mind:

• in the arguments field during setting up, be aware that unless you set cppcheck in your environment paths, "--tool=cppcheck" does not work. You'll need to set the directory:

@--qtc-plugin --tool="C:/Cppcheck-1.55/cppcheck.exe" %{CurrentProject:FilePath} @

• You'll need to set an environment paths to QtCreator(usually in C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\Tools\QtCreator\bin). Without this the warning messages from cppcheck does not show up in the issues pane

• Don't use cppcheck 1.60. In qpt 0.7, it doesn't work. I got things running with cppcheck 1.55.

And thus, a happy user of QtProjectTool! :D

!https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-byu0-9Dqaro/UayAScAJ3gI/AAAAAAAABWc/nw5Ld_YStvw/w617-h585-no/QtProjectTool+Screenshot.png(QtProjectTool running in windows 7)!

windows 7 32bit, Qt 5.0.2 MinGW, cppcheck 1.55

[cmazieri]

OK, Thanks.

I got a Windows machine and I am able to work on that now.

qpt 0.8 version will work better on Windows and the manual will be updated.

[j1elo]

Not a very good method for tool version check:
you are getting the numeric part and blindly converting to double. Well, it's a bit optimistic assumption that a version number will be a valid numeric value!

In fact, now that cppcheck went up to version 1.60.1, QPT happily states that "Tool cppcheck-gui requires a minimal version 1.55".

[cmazieri]

It is a bug and will be fixed soon.

As a work around try to edit the configuration file, qpt prints the path of the configuration file when it starts.
It is usually located at $HOME/.config/QtProjectTool/qpt.ini

try to clear the minimal version line, change:

Mininal_version_USE_only_digist_and_dot_it_will_be_converted_to_float=1.58

to

Mininal_version_USE_only_digist_and_dot_it_will_be_converted_to_float=

That should work.

[j1elo]

I did it the other way :)
Created a QByteArray w2 where to copy all the numbers without any punctuation sign. So 1.60.1 ends up being 1601 which is greater than 1.55
Maybe it's a good idea for version checking (I didn't stop to think about implications of doing this... it was just a workaround)

[cmazieri]

Hello,

Version 0.8 has been released with some improvements, see "RELEASE NOTES":http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtprojecttool/files/RELEASE_NOTES.txt/download

[cmazieri]

Version 0.8 has been released with some improvements, the main work was done to have a better Windows version.

See "RELEASE NOTES":http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtprojecttool/files/RELEASE_NOTES.txt/download

[last5bits]

Thank you for your tool! But I get question marks in the file paths with non-latin letters (e.g. cyrillic letters)
@$qpt -A CET.pro

/home/alex/Projects/??????/src/main.cpp
/home/alex/Projects/??????/src/mainwindow.cpp
/home/alex/Projects/??????/src/mainwindow.h@