External tool clang-tidy not read .clang-tidy configuration file

[Zufu Liu]

After clang-tidy been enabled in the project file.

    <tools>
        <tool>clang-tidy</tool>
    </tools>

run the check, got many unwanted warnings, the .clang-tidy configuration file been ignored.

I think Cppcheck should honor .clang-tidy configuration file if it found (maybe allow user to set the location of the file, and read it in), instead of passing all check options on command line, which override the options in configuration file.

The file is YAML.
https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/index.html

[Daniel Marjamäki]

Good idea!

[Zufu Liu]

Hi Daniel, any suggestion on SetClipboardData()
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setclipboarddata

Currently cppcheck reports memory leak for code using it, I think it can be treated as free-like function.

[Daniel Marjamäki]

The SetClipboardData() is configured here:
https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/blob/1.87/cfg/windows.cfg#L3068

It sounds like the configuration should not say <leak-ignore>. I'll remove it. If you see any other problems related to "windows sdk" you can check if the windows.cfg has proper configuration for the functions.

[Zufu Liu]

Thanks.

[Maximilian Jörg]

Hi Daniel,
I was trying to use a .clang-tidy file to configure the analysis, but it appears to not work. I'm not sure if my setup is correct, that's why I want to confirm whether the feateure was implemented at all or whether it is still an open request.
Would be great to have this option available.
thanks

[Daniel Marjamäki]

The ticket that we created in trac: https://trac.cppcheck.net/ticket/9190

If anybody would have time to fix that please feel free to do it.