Clang Static Analyzer Setup

setup.md

Setting up Clang Static Analyzer on macOS

• Go to https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/
• Grab the checker-279.tar.bz2 file from the link under Mac OS X
• Untar this file somewhere, e.g. ~/workspace/checker-279

Using it

• Go to e.g. ~/workspace/myproject
• Compile it from scratch, including autogen parts, with make clean, but prefix each call with the scan-build in the path above. E.g.

$ ~/workspace/checker-279/bin/scan-build ./autogen.sh
$ ~/workspace/checker-279/bin/scan-build ./configure --enable-debug
$ ~/workspace/checker-279/bin/scan-build make clean
$ ~/workspace/checker-279/bin/scan-build make -j5