cppcheck/man/chapters/12-html-report.md

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=.