cppcheck-action

A simple Cppcheck static code analysis for GitHub Actions

Example usage

In you workflow file, first checkout the repository (using, for instance, a simple but powerful actions/checkout@v2 action)

jobs:
  analyse:
    name: Run Cppcheck
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Check out repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        depth: 1
        submodules: 'recursive'

then continue with this action:

    - name: Run Cppcheck
      uses: Bedzior/[email protected]
      with:
        enabled checks: all
        enable inconclusive: true
        generate report: true

This will enable all Cppchecks, including inconclusive ones, and generate the report in output directory. Uploading the result is then as trial as calling:

    - name: Upload report
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
      with:
        name: report
        path: output

Enjoy!

Full reference

debug

description: 'Debug script run to troubleshoot configuration errors'
required: false
default: false

This is here to ease troubleshooting, resolving issues and for developers' convenience. Uses set -x to see commands passed to sh

enabled checks

description: 'Which checks are enabled'
required: false
default: 'all'

See wiki for a full reference.

enable inconclusive

description: 'Enable inconclusive checks'
required: false
default: false

exclude from check

description: 'Which directories or files to exclude from analysis; format: paths prefixed with `-i`, space-delimited'
required: false
default: ''

For now it's a space-delimited list of paths, each prefixed with -i. E.g.

• -ivendor
• -itools -iexternals -isrc/single_file_library.c

generate report

description: 'Whether to generate an XML and HTML reports'
required: false
default: true

include directories

description: 'Include paths; format: directories prefixed with `-I`, space-delimited'
required: false
default: ''

For now it's a space-delimited list of directories, each prefixed with -I. E.g.

• -I3rdparty/super_library/include
• -Iincludes -Iexternal/includes

path

description: 'Path to your project, passed directly to Cppcheck'
required: true
default: '.'

report name

description: 'Name of your report'
required: false
default: ${{ github.repository }}

Report title, displayed in resulting index.html

verbose

description: 'Verbose Cppcheck error descriptions'
required: false
default: false

For all those wishing to know, exactly why something was marked as dubious or wrong by Cppcheck

Acknowledgments

Docker image's source code is available here

This action makes use of Cppcheck, which is a great open-source tool I can recommend.

I would like to thank dbeef for providing a suiting testbed for this GitHub Action in form of his spelunky-psp project repository. Check it out here!

License

All content in this repository is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2020 Rafał Będźkowski