Post-Installation

After Eclipse has restarted, the final step in the installation process is to verify that the plugin has been installed successfully, as follows:

  1. In Eclipse, select Help >About Eclipse IDE >Installation Details.
  2. The Perforce QAC Eclipse (referred to as Perforce QAC Feature) should be visible under the Installed Software tab.
  3. Click in the top right hand corner of the interface, select the Perforce QAC Source Code Analysis Framework perspective, and then click OK to verify whether or not the perspective loads. If it does, you are ready to start analyzing C/C++ projects, in accordance with the Perforce QAC Eclipse Manual.
After installing a compliance module in Perforce QAC, Eclipse needs to be restarted before the compliance module can be used.
On some Linux machines, it is possible that the Perforce QAC Eclipse might not load the Perforce QAC libraries and so might fail to find Perforce QAC on the machine. In this event, manually run LD_PRELOAD and then run Eclipse from the same terminal. The command is as follows:

export LD_PRELOAD=<installation_path>/QAC-<version>/common/lib/libstdc++.so.6

where

  • <installation_path> is the Perforce QAC installation directory.
  • <version> is the Perforce QAC version.