Critical The cxx plugin does not run any static analysis tools, thus all reports must be generated externally

Here is a quick guide how to generate the reports using external tools

cppcheck

Make sure to pass all include directories as otherwise the analysis will be incomplete. Caveat: cppcheck writes the output to the standard error.

Rule Extensions Extension of cppcheck rules is possible by using extensions/rules/cppcheck. See Extending the Available Tools Rules on how to create the rules

cppncss

You may also use -D and -M options to tell cppncss about preprocessor macros.

Valgrind

Just tell valgrind to generate XML output. The 'tool' option isn't necessary as 'memcheck' is the default one. Make sure the binaries contain debug info.

Rule Extensions Extension of valgrind rules is possible by using extensions/rules/valgrind. See Extending the Available Tools Rules on how to create the rules

Vera++

The generation of vera++ reports is somewhat more tricky. We find all the files we want to be analysed, pipe this list into vera++ and pipe its output into a Perl script which finally generates the required XML. 

Rule Extensions Extension of vera++ rules is possible by using extensions/rules/vera++. See Extending the Available Tools Rules on how to create the rules

RATS

Rule Extensions Extension of rats rules is possible by using extensions/rules/rats. See Extending the Available Tools Rules on how to create the rules

PC-Lint

Please refer to product page (Official Site)

Rule Extensions Extension of pclint rules is possible by using extensions/rules/pclint. See Extending the Available Tools Rules on how to create the rules

External Tool sensor

As of version 0.2, any static analysis tool can be reused with the plugin using the property sonar.cxx.externalrules.reportPath. The following table describes the format of the report

<element name="results" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0">
 <zeroOrMore>
   <element name="error">
     <attribute name="file"/>
     <attribute name="msg"/>
     <attribute name="id"/>
     <attribute name="line">
       <data type="integer" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes" />
     </attribute>
     <text/>
   </element>
 </zeroOrMore>
</element>

To enable the rules in sonar see