Tool to capture C/C++ compiler command lines for use by Sonargraph-Architect.
When Sonargraph analyzes C/C++ code it must know the compiler options used to properly compile a C/C++ compilation unit. The most
important ones are include options (-I) that designate locations where additional header files can be found and macro definitions (-D)
that can influence conditional compilation. While it is possible to figure out these options by manually inspecting compilation logs
it is much easier to collect them automatically via ccspy. The tool acts as an intermediary between your build tool (e.g. make)
and the compiler. For each compilation unit it records all command line options in a file in the ccspy target directory before
redirecting the call to the actual compiler. This target directory should be located parallel to the Sonargraph system directory
of the system to be analyzed.
If you have go installed on your machine you can simply call
go install github.com/sonargraph/ccspy
The tool is open source and you can inspect the code on Github. It is also distributed with your Sonargraph installation
and can be found in the bin directory. On a Mac you have to open the package contents of the Sonargraph app to
find it. Then make sure that the location of ccspy is added to your PATH environment variable.
Most C/C++ systems are compiled using tools like make,cmake or other. To integrate ccspy into your build
just configure ccspy as your compiler, e.g. in your makefile add a line CC=ccspy. Then run a clean build that
forces all your source files to be compiled via ccspy. The result will be one file per compilation unit in
the ccspy target directory, which then will be used by Sonargraph to retrieve the options needed to for analyzing
each compilation unit correctly.
Keep that configuration as long as you use Sonargrah. If you add new compilation units they will be added automatically to Sonargraph's analysis.
The tool needs to know which compiler to call and where to store the results (ccspy target directory). There
are 3 modes of configuration:
- Command line arguments
- Prefix mode
- Environment variables
Command line options for ccspy always have to be the first parameters in the command line.These are the
supported command line arguments:
-ccspyTargetDir=<path to the target directory>-ccspyCompiler=<name of your compiler, e.g. gcc>
Example:
ccspy -ccspyCompiler=gcc -ccspyTargetDir=/project/ccspy -I../inc -DMACRO=1 test.cpp
Here you just use ccspy before the complete compile command, e.g.:
ccspy -ccspyTargetDir=/project/ccspy gcc -c -I../inc -DMACRO=1 test.cpp
In that case you can also define the target directory via environment variable (see below).
The tool recognizes the following environment variables:
CCSPY_CC default C compiler
CCSPY_CXX default C++ compiler
CCSPY_TARGET_DIR target directory
The quickest way to get help is to send an email to support at hello2morrow.com.