flint: Facebook's C++ Linter

flint is an open-source lint program for C++ developed and used at Facebook.

flint is published on Github at https://github.com/facebook/flint; for discussions, there is a Google group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/facebook-flint.

There are two versions of flint. The main one (flint/*.d) is written in the D programming language and is supported going forward. We also provide our older implementation in C++ (flint/cxx/*.cpp) for historical perspective and comparison purposes.

Currently flint's build has only been tested on Ubuntu. The motivated user should have no problem adapting it to other systems. More officially supported OSs to follow.

Dependencies

• folly (https://github.com/facebook/folly)

  Follow the instructions to download and install folly.

• double-conversion (http://code.google.com/p/double-conversion/)

  Follow the instructions listed on the Folly page to build and install

• googletest (Google C++ Testing Framework)

  Grab gtest 1.6.0 from: http://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.6.0.zip. Unzip it inside of the cxx/ subdirectory.

• additional platform specific dependencies

  Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit

  • g++ (tested with 4.7.1, 4.8.1)
  • gdc
  • automake
  • autoconf
  • autoconf-archive
  • libtool
  • libboost1.54-all-dev
  • libgoogle-glog-dev
  • libgflags-dev

To Build

autoreconf --install
LDFLAGS=-L<double-conversion> CPPFLAGS=-I<double-conversion>/src configure ...
make