How to run CppCheck inside Visual Studio as a CMake custom build target.

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)

project(MyExampleProject VERSION 1.0 LANGUAGES CXX)

add_executable(my_project main.cpp)

# Add Analyze with CppCheck target if CppCheck is installed
if(WIN32)
  # Find CppCheck executable
  find_program(CMAKE_CXX_CPPCHECK cppcheck NAMES cppcheck HINTS $ENV{PROGRAMFILES}/cppcheck)
  
  # If CppCheck executable found
  if(CMAKE_CXX_CPPCHECK)
    # Check CppCheck version
    set(CPP_CHECK_CMD ${CMAKE_CXX_CPPCHECK} --version)
    execute_process(COMMAND ${CPP_CHECK_CMD}
      WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
      RESULT_VARIABLE CPP_CHECK_RESULT
      OUTPUT_VARIABLE CPP_CHECK_VERSION
      ERROR_VARIABLE CPP_CHECK_ERROR)
    
    # Check if version could be extracted
    if(CPP_CHECK_RESULT EQUAL 0)
      # Get number of CPU cores
      include(ProcessorCount)
      ProcessorCount(CPU_CORES)

      # Append desired arguments to CppCheck
      list(
        APPEND CMAKE_CXX_CPPCHECK
          
          # Using the below template will allow jumping to any found error from inside Visual Studio output window by double click
          "--template \"${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/{file}({line}): {severity} ({id}): {message}\"" 
          
          # Use all the available CPU cores
          "-j ${CPU_CORES}" 
          
          # Only show found errors
          "--quiet" 
          
          # Desired warning level in CppCheck
          "--enable=style"
          
          # Optional: Specified C++ version
          "--std=c++17"
           
          # Optional: Specified platform
          "--platform=win64"
          
          # Optional: suppression file stored in same directory as the top level CMake script
          "--suppressions-list=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cppcheck_suppressions.txt"
          
          # Optional: Use inline suppressions
          "--inline-suppr"
          
          # Run CppCheck from the working directory, as specified in the add_custom_target command below
          "."
        )
      
      add_custom_target(ANALYZE_CPPCHECK DEPENDS my_project
        COMMAND ${CMAKE_CXX_CPPCHECK}
        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
        COMMENT "Static code analysis using ${CPP_CHECK_VERSION}"
      )
    endif()
  endif()
endif()