CSCPPC(1)

💅 CSCPPC — like, the compiler wrapper that runs cppcheck in the background, bestie

okay so welcome to the cscppc(1) manual page, section 1 of the manual, and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

cscppc — a compiler wrapper that runs cppcheck in background 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cscppc [--help | --print-path-to-wrap]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so real talk: cscppc is a compiler wrapper that runs cppcheck in background. that's the whole vibe. ✨

the way you set her up is: you make a symbolic link to cscppc, you name that link after your compiler (gcc, g++, ...), and then you drop it into your $PATH. that's it, that's the ritual 🫶

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🧚 the parameters she hands to Cppcheck by default

these are, like, automatic. she just does this:

• -D__GNUC__
• -D__STDC__
• -D__i386__ [32bit architecture only]
• -D__WORDSIZE=32 [32bit architecture only]
• -D__x86_64__ [64bit architecture only]
• -D__WORDSIZE=64 [64bit architecture only]
• -D__CPPCHECK__
• --inline-suppr
• --quiet
• --template="{file}:{line}: {severity}: {id}(CWE-{cwe}): {message}"
• --suppressions-list=/usr/share/cscppc/default.supp

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🌈 the parameters she passes along from the compiler's command line

so these ones she scoops up from whatever the compiler was invoked with and forwards them:

• -D...
• -I...

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🍓 the file extensions she recognizes as C/C++ source files

• c
• C
• cc
• cpp
• cxx

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👑 activating the wrapper

if cscppc is installed on your system, this command right here activates the wrapper:

export PATH="$(cscppc --print-path-to-wrap):$PATH"

slay. that's the whole activation. go off 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — prints basic usage information. like, the short version of what you're reading rn 🎀
• --print-path-to-wrap — prints the path to the directory that holds the symlinks to the cscppc executable. this is the one you shove into your $PATH 💜

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

cscppc propagates the exit status that the compiler returned — that's in the case where cscppc succeeds in running the compiler. 🫶

but the exit status returned by Cppcheck? yeah no, that one does not affect the resulting exit status. not even a little. periodt. 💀

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🌸 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌸

• DEBUG_CSCPPC — if you set this to a non-empty string, cscppc will output the list of parameters that were given to Cppcheck, straight to standard output. cute for snooping, ngl 🔍
• CSCPPC_ADD_OPTS — cscppc expects a colon-separated list of Cppcheck options here, and she appends them to the command line prior to invoking Cppcheck. heads up tho: they get appended even if they already appear in the command line, and they are always appended at the end of the command line. so, like, no deduping, bestie 🙈

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🦋 BUGS 🦋

please report bugs and feature requests at https://github.com/csutils/cscppc. do not suffer in silence, we wanna hear it 💖

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

written by Kamil Dudka.

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🎀 COPYING 🎀

Copyright (C) 2013-2022 Red Hat, Inc. free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). see the COPYING file for details. 📜

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and that's the whole page, no cap. every flag, every default, every file extension — all accounted for. mwah 💋

okay bye bestie, this was the cscppc(1) page, dated 06/29/2026 — go forth and run your wrapper, main character 🧚✨👑