package frama-c
Install
Dune Dependency
Authors
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MMichele Alberti
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TThibaud Antignac
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GGergö Barany
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PPatrick Baudin
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TThibaut Benjamin
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AAllan Blanchard
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LLionel Blatter
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FFrançois Bobot
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RRichard Bonichon
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QQuentin Bouillaguet
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DDavid Bühler
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ZZakaria Chihani
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LLoïc Correnson
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JJulien Crétin
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PPascal Cuoq
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ZZaynah Dargaye
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BBasile Desloges
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JJean-Christophe Filliâtre
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PPhilippe Herrmann
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MMaxime Jacquemin
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FFlorent Kirchner
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AAlexander Kogtenkov
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TTristan Le Gall
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JJean-Christophe Léchenet
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MMatthieu Lemerre
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DDara Ly
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DDavid Maison
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CClaude Marché
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AAndré Maroneze
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TThibault Martin
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FFonenantsoa Maurica
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MMelody Méaulle
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BBenjamin Monate
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YYannick Moy
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AAnne Pacalet
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VValentin Perrelle
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GGuillaume Petiot
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DDario Pinto
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VVirgile Prevosto
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AArmand Puccetti
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FFélix Ridoux
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VVirgile Robles
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MMuriel Roger
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JJulien Signoles
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NNicolas Stouls
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KKostyantyn Vorobyov
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BBoris Yakobowski
Maintainers
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README.md.html
README.md
Frama-C is a platform dedicated to the analysis of source code written in C.
A Collaborative Platform
Frama-C gathers several analysis techniques in a single collaborative platform, consisting of a kernel providing a core set of features (e.g., a normalized AST for C programs) plus a set of analyzers, called plug-ins. Plug-ins can build upon results computed by other plug-ins in the platform.
Thanks to this approach, Frama-C provides sophisticated tools, including:
an analyzer based on abstract interpretation, aimed at verifying the absence of run-time errors (Eva);
a program proof framework based on weakest precondition calculus (WP);
a program slicer (Slicing);
a tool for verification of temporal (LTL) properties (Aoraï);
a runtime verification tool (E-ACSL);
several tools for code base exploration and dependency analysis (From, Impact, Metrics, Occurrence, Scope, etc.).
These plug-ins share a common language and can exchange information via ACSL (ANSI/ISO C Specification Language) properties. Plug-ins can also collaborate via their APIs.
Installation
Frama-C is available through opam, the OCaml package manager. If you have it, simply run:
opam install frama-c
or, for opam
versions less than 2.1.0:
opam install depext # handles external (non-OCaml) dependencies
opam depext frama-c --install
Frama-C is developed mainly in Linux, often tested in macOS (via Homebrew), and occasionally tested on Windows (via the Windows Subsystem for Linux).
For detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting, see INSTALL.md.
Development branch
To install the development branch of Frama-C (updated nightly):
opam pin add frama-c --dev-repo
This command will pin the development version of Frama-C and try to install it. If installation fails due to missing external dependencies, try using the same commands from the Installation section to get the external dependencies and then install Frama-C.
Distribution packages
Some Linux distributions have a frama-c
package, kindly provided by distribution packagers. Note that they may not correspond to the latest Frama-C release.
Usage
Frama-C can be run from the command-line, or via its graphical interface.
Simple usage
The recommended usage for simple files is one of the following lines:
frama-c file.c -<plugin> [options]
frama-c-gui file.c
Where -<plugin>
is one of the several Frama-C plug-ins, e.g. -eva
, or -wp
, or -metrics
, etc. Plug-ins can also be run directly from the GUI.
To list all plug-ins, run:
frama-c -plugins
Each plug-in has a help command (-<plugin>-help
or -<plugin>-h
) that describes its own options.
Finally, the list of options governing the behavior of Frama-C's kernel itself is available through
frama-c -kernel-help
Complex scenarios
For more complex usage scenarios (lots of files and directories, with several preprocessing directives), we recommend splitting Frama-C's usage in two parts:
Parsing the input files and saving the result to a file;
Loading the parsing results and then running the analyses or the GUI.
Parsing typically involves giving extra arguments to the C preprocessor, so the -cpp-extra-args
option is often useful, as in the example below:
frama-c *.c *.h -cpp-extra-args="-D<define> -I<include>" -save parsed.sav
The results are then loaded into Frama-C for further analyses or for inspection via the GUI:
frama-c -load parsed.sav -<plugin> [options]
frama-c-gui -load parsed.sav -<plugin> [options]
Further reference
Links to user and developer manuals, Frama-C archives, and plug-in manuals are available at
https://frama-c.com/html/get-frama-c.htmlThe Frama-C documentation page contains links to all manuals and plugins description, as well as tutorials, courses and more.
StackOverflow has several questions with the
frama-c
tag, which is monitored by several members of the Frama-C community.The Frama-c-discuss mailing list is used for announcements and general discussions.
The Frama-C blog has several posts about new developments of Frama-C, as well as general discussions about the C language, undefined behavior, floating-point computations, etc.
The Frama-C public repository contains a daily snapshot of the development version of Frama-C, as well as the issues tracking system, for reporting bugs. These contribution guidelines detail how to submit issues or create merge requests.