Installing and updating PVS-Studio on macOS

• Installation from Homebrew
• Manual installation
  • Installer:
  • Archive
• Running the analyzer

PVS-Studio is distributed as a graphical installer, archive or via the Homebrew repository. Using installation from a repository, you can get analyzer updates automatically. The distribution kit includes the following files:

• pvs-studio - the kernel of the analyzer;
• pvs-studio-analyzer - a utility for checking projects without integration;
• plog-converter - a utility for converting the analyzer report to different formats;

You can install the analyzer using the following methods:

Installation from Homebrew

Installation:

brew install viva64/pvs-studio/pvs-studio

Update:

brew upgrade pvs-studio

Manual installation

Installer:

Run the .pkg file and follow the instructions of the installer:

Archive

Unpack the archive and place the executables in the directory, available in PATH.

tar -xzf pvs-studio-VERSION.tgz

Running the analyzer

After a successful analyzer installation on your computer, to check a project follow the instructions on this page: "How to run PVS-Studio on Linux and macOS".