If you do static analysis on Step 2 (ie on the AST) then you only need the Front-end of your compiler.
Clang/LLVM is much more modular, library oriented.(which is why the Google engineer wanted to switch to it). You can just link to the needed front-end and do the static analysis without generating the LLVM bytecode.
So yes, you could install a static-analyzer without the whole compiler.
Clang/LLVM is much more modular, library oriented.(which is why the Google engineer wanted to switch to it). You can just link to the needed front-end and do the static analysis without generating the LLVM bytecode.
So yes, you could install a static-analyzer without the whole compiler.