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Expand Up @@ -17,15 +17,17 @@ A manual is available [online](https://cppcheck.sourceforge.io/manual.pdf).

## Donate CPU

Cppcheck is a hobby project with limited resources. You can help us by donating CPU (1 core or as many as you like). It is simple:
Cppcheck is a hobby project with limited resources. You can help us by donating CPU (1 core, which is the default, or as many as you like. Use the `-j` flag to use more cores). It is simple:

1. Download (and extract) Cppcheck source code.
2. Run:
2. Run (Linux/MacOS example):
```
cd cppcheck/
virtualenv .env
.env/bin/pip install -r tools/donate-cpu-requirements.txt
.env/bin/python tools/donate-cpu.py
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -r tools/donate-cpu-requirements.txt
./tools/donate-cpu.py
```

The script will analyse debian source code and upload the results to a cppcheck server. We need these results both to improve Cppcheck and to detect regressions.
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