Installation and Upgrade

PC-lint Plus View agent is a package that must be downloaded on every client computer that needs to perform local code analyses or trigger a remote analysis on PC-lint Plus View server.

There are usually two ways to contemplate the deployment of PC-lint Plus View agent:

  1. As a way to analyze code and process data on a client machine and send the results to the server.

  2. As a way to instruct the server to execute an analysis of code and other input data.

Once downloaded, you are ready to create projects and trigger analyses on any PC-lint Plus View server available from your client, see the Usage section to know more about triggering analyses, remote or local.

Do not forget to have a look at the following section to know more about the necessary prerequisites, where to download PC-lint Plus View agent and such.

Prerequisites

The absolute minimum necessary to run PC-lint Plus View agent successfully is:

  • One of the Supported Operating Systems (same as PC-lint Plus View server’s list).

  • A Java Runtime Environment version 17 (64-bit) (Java 11 is still supported, any other versions are not.)

Then, in case you plan to use PC-lint Plus View agent as a way to analyze code and process data on the client machine, then additional packages will be required. Requirements will be the same as for a PC-lint Plus View server. See the PC-lint Plus View server prerequisites section to get the list of required and optional packages depending on your operating system: Installation Prerequisites

Download

To download PC-lint Plus View agent, access the PC-lint Plus View agent page from Help > PC-lint Plus View agent menu in the top right corner. Once in the PC-lint Plus View agent page, click on the Download pclpview-agent.jar button.

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Figure 1. Access PC-lint Plus View agent page

Upgrade

There is no need to upgrade PC-lint Plus View agent. A check is performed every time a project analysis is launched and the new binaries are downloaded automatically if necessary.

Uninstall

To completely remove PC-lint Plus View agent from your system, just delete the pclpview-agent.jar file and any workspaces you created.