Command-line tool

cppcheck

brew/cppcheck

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id Cppcheck.Cppcheck -e
scoop install cppcheck

macOS

brew install cppcheck

Linux

brew install cppcheck

Recursively check the current directory, showing progress on the screen and logging error messages to a file

cppcheck . 2> cppcheck.log

Recursively check a given directory, and don't print progress messages

cppcheck -q path/to/directory

Check a given file, specifying which tests to perform (by default only errors are shown)

cppcheck --enable error path/to/file.cpp

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