Jenkins provides robust support for C and C++ projects, enabling efficient continuous integration and delivery pipelines for system software, embedded applications, and performance-critical solutions.
Jenkins integrates seamlessly with all major C/C++ build systems:
Make/Ninja: Execute builds through shell steps
CMake: Use the CMake Plugin for configured builds
Autotools: Run ./configure scripts with environment customization
Cross-compilation: Manage toolchains with Custom Tools Plugin
Unit Testing: Process results from Google Test, Catch2, and CppUnit with xUnit Plugin
Static Analysis: Integrate Clang-Tidy, Cppcheck with Warnings Next Generation Plugin
Code Coverage: Generate reports using gcov and Cobertura Plugin
Jenkins supports matrix builds for multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS) with consistent toolchains and environments.
Special considerations for firmware projects:
Hardware resource management with Throttle Concurrent Builds Plugin
Build reliability with Build Timeout Plugin
Device flashing automation
collects compiler warnings and issues from static analysis tools such as CppCheck
run and incorporate Valgrind (memcheck) reports into Jenkins
provides a build step that generates the build scripts from a CMakeLists.txt file
generate reports based on test tooling output from various unit test frameworks
generate trend reports for CppCheck, a tool for static C/C++ code analysis.