# HTML Report

You can convert the XML output from cppcheck into a HTML report. You'll need Python and the pygments module (<http://pygments.org/)> for this to work. In the Cppcheck source tree there is a folder htmlreport that contains a script that transforms a Cppcheck XML file into HTML output.

This command generates the help screen:

    htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport -h

The output screen says:

    Usage: cppcheck-htmlreport [options]

    Options:
       -h, --help      show this help message and exit
       --file=FILE     The cppcheck xml output file to read defects from.
                       Default is reading from stdin.
       --report-dir=REPORT_DIR
                       The directory where the html report content is written.
       --source-dir=SOURCE_DIR
                       Base directory where source code files can be found.

An example usage:

    ./cppcheck gui/test.cpp --xml 2> err.xml
    htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport --file=err.xml --report-dir=test1 --source-dir=.