cppcheck 2.19 Windows version does not start: cannot load configuration

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cppcheck 2.19 Windows version does not start: cannot load configuration

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Jeroen Pouwels

Created: 2026-01-16

Updated: 2026-01-16

Jeroen Pouwels - 2026-01-16

Starting cppcheck 2.19 from the provided Windows installer with date 2025-12-21 gives the following error:

cppcheck: Failed to load library configuration file 'std.cfg'. File not found Failed to load std.cfg. Your Cppcheck installation is broken, please re-install. The Cppcheck binary was compiled with FILESDIR set to "R:/winlibs64ucrt_stage/inst_cppcheck-2.14.0/share/Cppcheck" and will therefore search for std.cfg in R:/winlibs64ucrt_stage/inst_cppcheck-2.14.0/share/Cppcheck/cfg.

Please provide a new installer for Windows.

Best regards,
Jeroen

Last edit: Jeroen Pouwels 2026-01-16
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CHR - 2026-01-16

I just installed 2.19 and cppcheck runs fine.
How/where did you install cppcheck? Are the .cfg files in %ProgramFiles%\cppcheck\cfg present and accessible?

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Jeroen Pouwels - 2026-01-16

Oh, mea culpa. I now see that also an old version of cppcheck is in the path on my machine (it is part of Strawberry Perl....), which is the one being started.
My apologies...

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