vcpkg Host Dependencies for Cross-Compilation

by Robert Schumacher

If you’re not familiar with our C++ library manager vcpkg, welcome! This post covers an intermediate/advanced topic, so you may want to first get an overview and try things out from the vcpkg GitHub page or some of our previous blogs.

Cling -- Beyond Just Interpreting C++

by Vassil Vassilev, Wim Lavrijsen, Alexandru Militaru

In our previous blog post “Interactive C++ for Data Science” we described eval-style programming, interactive C++ in Notebooks and CUDA. This post will discuss some developed applications of Cling supporting interoperability and extensibility. We aim to demonstrate template instantiation on demand; embedding Cling as a service; and showcase an extension enabling on-the-fly automatic differentiation...

Example of How New Diagnostics Appear in PVS-Studio

by Andrey Karpov

As for application software development, it doesn't make sense to enable them. The CovidSim project could do without them. Otherwise, a user will simply drown in a huge number of messages that are of little use in this case. For example, when experimenting with this set of diagnostics, we received more than a million warnings for some medium-sized open projects. Roughly speaking, every third line of code might be faulty in the view of MISRA. No one will scrape through all warnings, much less fix them. The project is either developed immediately taking into account MISRA recommendations, or this coding standard is irrelevant for it.
 

Creating other types of synchronization objects that can be used with co_await, part 2

by Raymond Chen

Last time, I teased a library for building awaitable synchronization objects. It builds on the code had earlier written for one-shot events by distilling the pattern to its essence and then rebuilding it in a more generic way...

PVS-Studio 7.12 New Features for Finding Safety and Security Threats

by Nikolay Mironov, Paul Eremeev

Well, to waste no time, let's point out the additions right away. So, here is what's new, safe, and cool in PVS-Studio:

• New diagnostic groups OWASP ASVS and The AUTOSAR C++14 Coding Guidelines have been added to the analyzer. Previously, the compliance of PVS-Studio diagnostic rules with these standards was available only on our website. Now we have more than 50 new diagnostic rules!
• Now the analyzer shows information about the compliance of the warnings with the SEI CERT Coding Standard. This information formerly was available only on the PVS-Studio website.
• The interface of our plugins for Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider, and IntelliJ IDEA has been improved to ease the work with analyzer messages that have safety and security standards identifiers.
• New diagnostic groups (OWASP, AUTOSAR) in PlogConverter are supported.
• New diagnostics (OWASP, AUTOSAR) are supported in SonarQube at the tag level. We classified our diagnostic rules by OWASP Top 10.

CLion 2021.1 EAP: Branch Coverage, New MISRA Checks, and Remote Makefile projects

by Anastasia Kazakova

A new CLion 2021.1 EAP build (211.6305.15) is now available from our website, via the Toolbox App, or as a snap package (if you are using Ubuntu). Note that if you are on macOS, there is a separate build for Apple Silicon (M1 chip)...

Next steps for Clang Power Tools

by Horatiu Prica

We are happy to announce that Clang Power Tools is now entirely free for everyone while keeping it open-source on GitHub. We had a blast these past two years, working full-time on making Clang Power Tools better and bringing to fruition its code modernization mission...

Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg

by Nicole Mazzuca

Are you working on a C++ project with library dependencies? Are you tired of maintaining a custom-built package management workflow with duct tape and git submodules? Then you should consider trying out a package manager. Perhaps you have been side-eyeing vcpkg for a while, and it looks like the perfect solution for your team, but for one problem: not all your dependencies are open source! Your company has internal libraries that they expect everyone to use too...

CLion 2021.1 EAP: Postfix Completion for C and C++

by Anastasia Kazakova

A new CLion 2021.1 EAP build (211.6085.16) is now available from our website, via the Toolbox App, or as a snap package (if you are using Ubuntu). Note that if you are on macOS, there is a separate build for Apple Silicon (M1 chip)...

Complete C++20 Modules Support with GCC

by Boris Kolpackov

build2 now provides conforming and scalable support for all the major C++20 Modules features when used with GCC. This includes named modules, module partitions (both interface and implementation), header unit importation, and include translation. All of these features are also supported in libraries, including consumption of installed libraries with information about modules and importable headers conveyed in pkg-config files. As part of this effort we have also created a collection of examples that demonstrate C++20 Modules features that impact the build process...