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Can I use PVS-Studio Free with Unreal Engine 4?

Studio developers,

Thanks you so much for your great product and ability to use it free for individual developers.

Could you help me with the above question - can I use PVS-Studio Free with Unreal Engine 4? If yes - can you provide some tutorial or help information?

Thanks.

Solution

  • You can use PVS-Studio Free by adding special comments to the files with the source code of only your project. The Unreal Engine 4 files or any other third-party library should be excluded from the analysis in the settings of the analyzer.

    If you use PVS-Stuio Plugin for Visual Studio or Standalone, add the path to the library in the menu Options --> Don’t Check Files.

    If you use a utility pvs-studio-analyzer in Linux, then use the parameter –e:

    pvs-studio-analyzer analyze … -e /path/to/lib/ …

    Note: due to the peculiarities of the build system (for example, during the auto-generation of the compilable files), this comment will be lost, free PVS-Studio mode will not be available. Unfortunately, such non-standard scenarios do not fall under the support that we provide for the free version of PVS-Studio. If you have such a situation, we suggest using a usual trial mode to assess the abilities of the analyzer.