C and Cpp File Discoverer - 2.0

Extension ID

com.castsoftware.dmtcfilediscoverer

What’s new?

See Release Notes.

Extension description

This discoverer detects projects based on the presence of C or C++ files according to a list of extensions declared for these languages.

In what situation should you install this extension?

This extension should be used when you don’t use Microsoft C/C++ projects to build your C/C++ application. Project files such as makefile are not supported by the discoverers provided “out of the box” in CAST. Therefore, this extension acts as a kind of “catch-all” to ensure that all C and C++ files will be packaged for analysis.

Technical information

What does the extension identify - i.e. what does it consider as a “project” and therefore an Analysis Unit?

Only one project is created per package when C or C++ files are detected (i.e. one project is equal to one Analysis Unit) - the following are supported:

• *.c, *.pc, *.ppc
• *.cpp, *.cc, *.cxx

This project will use the name of the top-folder that contains C or C++ files. As such, given the following folder structure (for example):

root
-folder1
--folder2
---src
----folder3
-----file1.c
----folder4
-----file2.c
----folder5
-----file3.c
-----file4.cpp
---include
----file1.h
----file2.h

Using this extension with the above folder structure will yield a project called src with a root path folder1/folder2/src. This project references the folder corresponding to the root in order to include all C/C++ files. If header files are found outside the top-folder, they are not added in the references of the project.

Compatibility