Cppcheck GUI: Excluding a file or folder from checking

Question

I am using Cppcheck GUI to scan my projects (new in Cppcheck, just starded to use it) and want to exclude some sub folders when I am scanning my project.

How to exclude some sub folder when scanning project folder with cppcheck GUI?

I have watched some videos on YouTube and tried to exclude as shown in this video but it still scanning excluded sub folders.

Thanks in advance.

Murrain

It's even possible to do so in the project file – Manhandle

Answer 1

Excluding a file or folder from checking To exclude a file or folder, there are two options. The first option is to only provide the paths and files you want to check.

cppcheck src/a src/b

All files under src/a and src/b are then checked. The second option is to use -i, with it you specify files/paths to ignore. With this command no files in src/c are checked:

cppcheck -isrc/c src

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

Bonneau

Answer 2

As of version 1.80, the manual still misses to describe the structure of GUI project files (chapter 12). The GUI itself has a lot of flaws, so I consider editing the project file through the GUI a waste of time. On the other hand, having these project files (under version control) and editing them by hand proved to be useful.

Here is the structure of a minimal project:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project version="1"/>

With such a file, Cppcheck is run on all potential C/C++ source files in the directory the cppcheck project file resides in (recursively including subfolders). You may exclude files or paths like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project version="1">
    <exclude>
        <path name="utilities/fileToExclude.c"/>
        <path name="utilities/pathToExclude/"/>
    </exclude>
</project>

Note: If you have the project already open in the GUI and edited its project file, remember to re-open the project file, only re-running all checks will not force a refresh of the project settings.

Manhandle

There is some documentation in a textfile in the source repository. – Dnieper

Answer 3

As of cppcheck-gui 1.88, the option to add excluded paths is found on the "Warning Options" tab:

Lithopone

Where is that window dialog ?? – Novotny