I'd like to offer something I've used at times in the past: a rudimentary leak checker which is source level and fairly automatic.
I'm giving this away for three reasons:
You might find it useful.
Though it's a bit krufty, I don't let that embarass me.
Even though it's tied to some win32 hooks, that should be easy to alleviate.
There are things of which you must be careful when using it: don't do anything that needs to lean on new
in the underlying code, beware of the warnings about cases it might miss at the top of leakcheck.cpp, realize that if you turn on (and fix any issues with) the code that does image dumps, you may generate a huge file.
The design is meant to allow you to turn the checker on and off without recompiling everything that includes its header. Include leakcheck.h where you want to track checking and rebuild once. Thereafter, compile leakcheck.cpp with or without LEAKCHECK #define'd and then relink to turn it on and off. Including unleakcheck.h will turn it off locally in a file. Two macros are provided: CLEARALLOCINFO() will avoid reporting the same file and line inappropriately when you traverse allocating code that didn't include leakcheck.h. ALLOCFENCE() just drops a line in the generated report without doing any allocation.
Again, please realize that I haven't used this in a while and you may have to work with it a bit. I'm dropping it in to illustrate the idea. If there turns out to be sufficient interest, I'd be willing to work up an example, updating the code in the process, and replace the contents of the following URL with something nicer that includes a decently syntax-colored listing.
You can find it here: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~tkammeye/leakcheck.html