Format output

[Harald-René Flasch]

Would be nice if there would be a way to format the output like cppcheck allows: e.g. --template vs $(SolutionDir)

This enables developers using Visual Studio just double-clock onto the c++ warning and jump directly to the bad line.

[Gaëtan Lehmann]

Could you give more details on the expected behavior? We are not familiar with cppcheck and --template vs $(SolutionDir)

[Harald-René Flasch]

Yes, the output must be formatted like this:

#!

RelativePath\FileName.ext(line,column): warning : XX1234: Some text

... to be accepted by VS IDE

e.g. Text\UrlBuilder.cs(19,1): warning : SP2000: Invalid spacing at the end of the line.

[Gaëtan Lehmann]

vera++ API does not provide any way to report the column. In consequence we can't match this exact format. However there is the --vc-report which is quite close:

../tests/L005.cpp(1): leading empty line(s)
../tests/L005.cpp(6): too many consecutive empty lines

we are using vera++ in visual studio that way (with a cmake generator) and it works well.

Is this option good enough for your case?

[Markus Pabst]

The column is not required, so it would be ok to print: RelativePath\FileName.ext(line): warning : XX1234: Some text

instead of RelativePath\FileName.ext:line: warning : XX1234: Some text

When adding Vera++ as external tool and run it inside the console this would help a lot.