Install clang format - Hyeonykim/toolConfiguration GitHub Wiki

1. Install clang-format executable by npm or apt

  • In case of windows use npm

    C:\Users\username>npm install -g clang-format
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\git-clang-format -> C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\clang-format\bin\git-clang-format
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\clang-format -> C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\clang- 
format\index.jsC:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\check-clang-format -> C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\clang-format\bin\check-clang-format.js

C:\Users\username>C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\clang-format --version
clang-format NPM version 1.8.0 at C:\Users\username\node_modules\clang-format\index.js
clang-format version 15.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 596752863e27e6b4b89e34ecfcf5317a5bf46b52)

  • In case of ubuntu use npm or apt

    • Use npm
    $ npm install -g clang-format
added 19 packages, and audited 20 packages in 569ms

4 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

$ npm list -g
/home/username/.node/lib
└── [email protected]

$ ls /home/username/.node/lib/node_modules/clang-format/bin/linux_x64/clang-format 
/home/username/.node/lib/node_modules/clang-format/bin/linux_x64/clang-format

$ /home/username/.node/lib/node_modules/clang-format/bin/linux_x64/clang-format --version
clang-format version 15.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 596752863e27e6b4b89e34ecfcf5317a5bf46b52)
    • Use apt
    $ sudo apt-get install clang-format -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  clang-format-14 libbsd0 libclang-cpp14 libedit2 libexpat1 libicu70 libllvm14 libmd0 libmpdec3 libpython3-stdlib libpython3.10-minimal libpython3.10-stdlib libreadline8
  libsqlite3-0 libxml2 media-types python3 python3-minimal python3.10 python3.10-minimal readline-common
Suggested packages:
  python3-doc python3-tk python3-venv python3.10-venv python3.10-doc binutils binfmt-support readline-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  clang-format clang-format-14 libbsd0 libclang-cpp14 libedit2 libexpat1 libicu70 libllvm14 libmd0 libmpdec3 libpython3-stdlib libpython3.10-minimal libpython3.10-stdlib
  libreadline8 libsqlite3-0 libxml2 media-types python3 python3-minimal python3.10 python3.10-minimal readline-common
0 upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 36.1 MB/54.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 230 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Setting up clang-format-14 (1:14.0.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up clang-format:amd64 (1:14.0-55~exp2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3) ..

$ which clang-format
/usr/bin/clang-format

$ clang-format --version
clang-format version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1
    • Remember clang-format executable location, the path will use for "clang-format.executable" configuration

2. For Your Information

  • Recomend to use npm to install clang-format because the npm install newer version than apt
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