CODECOMPOSER: Where to put the .clang-format and .clang-tidy files for code formattting

Matthias Pawig

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I am trying to configure the formatting style in CCS Theia 1.5.1.3. According to https://e2e.ti.com/support/tools/code-composer-studio-group/ccs/f/code-composer-studio-forum/1371734/codecomposer-theia-document-formatting-of-comments this can be changed with a .clang-format file in the "home" directory. Which directory is this refering to on windows? I tried putting it in c:\user\%username%\ and in the root project folder. None of these options seem to have any effect on the behaviour of code formatting. Is there any documentation? The same goes for .clang-tidy. Where to put the configuration file? in project root it seems to be ignored.

5 months ago

0 Udit Kapoor 5 months ago

TI__Prodigy 220 points

Hi Matthias,

The .clang-format file has to be in a parent directory of the `ti` folder. You can try putting the file in the parent directory of that folder. The "home" directory here in windows would refer to the `C:\`, but that is not needed.

Hope this helps!
Udit

0 Matthias Pawig 5 months ago in reply to Udit Kapoor

Prodigy 10 points

Its working now, the problem was that my .clang-format file contained a configuration which was invalid for the installed clangd version. After updating clangd it works.

How do I use clang-tidy checks within CCS? I enabled some checks in CCS->Clang-Tidy configuration, but there does not seem to be any output or consequence. Is there any documentation for this feature?

0 Ki 5 months ago in reply to Matthias Pawig

TI__Guru**** 451311 points

Matthias Pawig said:
but there does not seem to be any output or consequence

The output will appear in the Problems view:

https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide_ccs_theia/ccs_project-management.html#problems-view

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