Using an external Xcode Clang Static Analyzer binary, with additional checks

I’m using Xcode 3.2.4 and have setup the Clang Static Analyser feature to use a newer build of the binary, as detailed here: http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/xcode.html

(Basically using the set-xcode-analyzer command line utility to change which copy of the Static Analyser that Xcode uses for Build and Analyze.)

What I can’t figure is how to set that binary to use additional checks, such as -analyzer-check-objc-missing-dealloc when using the binary via Xcode, as detailed here: http://loufranco.com/blog/files/scan-build-better-than-build-analyze.html and in scan-build --help.

    AVAILABLE ANALYSES (multiple analyses may be specified):

 (+) -analyzer-check-dead-stores
     -analyzer-check-llvm-conventions
 (+) -analyzer-check-objc-mem
 (+) -analyzer-check-objc-methodsigs
     -analyzer-check-objc-missing-dealloc
 (+) -analyzer-check-objc-unused-ivars
 (+) -analyzer-check-security-syntactic

 NOTE: "(+)" indicates that an analysis is enabled by default unless one
     开发者_如何学运维  or more analysis options are specified

How do you pass in extra options to the binary when used via Xcode?

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Upon further investigation, it seems the best way to do this is to use a couple of entries in the Target Build Info, rather than the set-xcode-analyzer command line tool.

Add a User-defined setting, CC, containing the full path to the newer build of the binary, as follows (note that the /bin/clang on the end of the path):

CC = /Path/To/Folder/With/Clang/checker-244/bin/clang

Then in the Other Warning Flags entry add as many of the additional checks as you want, as follows:

WARNING_CFLAGS = -Xanalyzer -analyzer-check-llvm-conventions -Xanalyzer -analyzer-check-objc-missing-dealloc

Each is preceded by the argument -Xanalyzer which indicates that the next argument should be passed to the analyzer.

More on this can be found here: Mac OS X Developer Tools Manual Page.

Then, when you do a Build and Analyze in Xcode you should be using the external, newer binary running the additional checks.

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The accepted answer no longer works (Xcode 4)

The format of Xcode's build file means you have to do it like this:

WARNING_CFLAGS = "-Xanalyzer -analyzer-check-llvm-conventions -analyzer-check-objc-missing-dealloc"

NB: the quotes surrounding the entire XAnalyzer phrase.