clang-tools 0.3.1

Install clang-tools (clang-format, clang-tidy) with pip

Install clang-tools binaries (clang-format, clang-tidy) with pip.

Install

Tip

It is recommended to use this package in a virtual environment.

# create the virtual env in the working directory
python -m venv env-name

# to activate on Linux:
source env-name/bin/activate

# to activate on Windows:
./env-name/Scripts/activate

This will ensure that

1. there are no permission problems when installing the tool

2. the installed path (for MacOS and Windows) is within the environment’s variable PATH.

Install clang-tools command with pip

pip install clang-tools

Install clang-tools from git repo

pip install git+https://github.com/cpp-linter/clang-tools-pip.git@main

Usage

usage: clang-tools [-h] [-i INSTALL] [-d DIRECTORY] [-f]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INSTALL, --install INSTALL
                        Install clang-tools with specific version. default is 13.
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        The directory where is the clang-tools install.
  -f                    Force overwriting the symlink to the installed binary. This will only overwrite an existing symlink.

Use clang-tools command to install version 13 binaries.

clang-tools --install 13

Or install to a specified directory

clang-tools --install 13 --directory .

If the installed directory is in your path, you can run the installed tools.

clang-format-13 --version
clang-format version 13.0.0

clang-tidy-13 --version
LLVM (http://llvm.org/):
  LLVM version 13.0.0
  Optimized build.
  Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  Host CPU: skylake

Supported versions

clang-format

Version	14	13	12.0.1	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3.9
Linux	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Windows	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
macOS	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️

clang-tidy

Version	14	13	12.0.1	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3.9
Linux	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Windows	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
macOS	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️

Know issues:

1. clang-tidy-14 has Segmentation fault on Ubuntu 22.02.

2. clang-format-14 is over 1 GB for MacOSX

Thanks to the project clang-tools-static-binaries for all the binaries.