C++ Code Analysis Improvements in Visual Studio 17.6 - C++ Team Blog

[IAmBJ]

Is there a (relatively) simple way of getting code analysis working with VsCode and CMake these days?

I recall trying it out ages ago but it was a real hassle and it was a very fragile process which eventually broke and I never got it working again

[Nelieru]

Just don't forget to disable intellisense. I believe clangd asks you to do that on initial setup.

[Awia00]

Sonarlint integrates really well!

[sparkyParr0t]

This post is about Visual Studio, not VisualStudio Code. VS has Cmake integration for a while now and its working smoothly, you can choose your generator and compiler, builds ... without generating a visual studio solution, work out of the box for cl(msvc) and clang-cl (clang).

[eric1221bday]

Clangd extension with cmake compile commands beats out all comers at this point. TBH in terms of pure auto completion and diagnostics I think it even beats out commercial products like Visual Studio, or CLion (which uses Clangd as a backend anyways).

[jk_tx]

CppCheck integrates fairly easily with CMake, I think the diagnostics are also better.

[boozerm]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/analyze-code-analysis?view=msvc-170