Build-wrapper output: com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Analyzer$AnalyzerException: Exit code -2147483645

SonarQube Server / Community Build
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SonarQube Server 2025.5 Developer Edition
(Deployed on a Linux host via Docker: 2025.5.0-developer)

  • CFamily version: 6.72.0.89435

  • Build-wrapper: 6.72

  • Sonar-scanner: 7.3.0.5189

Project Environment:

  • VM with Windows 10, MSBuild + MSVC/Visual Studio 2019, C++17 .sln solution

  • Also tested with a Windows Server Core 2022 Docker container (same toolset as the VM)

  • GitLab + GitLab Runner 17.11

Hello everyone,

After upgrading our SonarQube instance to version 2025.5, along with the build-wrapper and sonar-scanner, the scanner now systematically fails with one of our company’s projects:

18:32:29.155 ERROR Exception in thread thread-1
com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Analyzer$AnalyzerException: Exit code -2147483645: D:/GitLab-Runner/builds/path/to/project/Activate/Activate.cpp
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.AnalysisHandler.acceptResult(AnalysisHandler.java:77)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Subprocess.executeImpl(Subprocess.java:127)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Subprocess.execute(Subprocess.java:159)
    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.lambda$process$16(CFamilySensor.java:917)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.AnalysisExecutor.lambda$submit$0(AnalysisExecutor.java:59)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
18:32:29.155 ERROR Exception in thread thread-7
com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Analyzer$AnalyzerException: Exit code -2147483645: D:/GitLab-Runner/builds/path/to/project/ApplicationDll/ParametersCommon.cpp
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.AnalysisHandler.acceptResult(AnalysisHandler.java:77)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Subprocess.executeImpl(Subprocess.java:127)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Subprocess.execute(Subprocess.java:159)
    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.lambda$process$16(CFamilySensor.java:917)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.AnalysisExecutor.lambda$submit$0(AnalysisExecutor.java:59)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

# ...

18:32:30.492 ERROR Exception in thread thread-3
com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Analyzer$AnalyzerException: Exit code -2147483645: D:/GitLab-Runner/builds/path/to/project/LibraryName/Constants.cpp
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.AnalysisHandler.acceptResult(AnalysisHandler.java:77)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Subprocess.executeImpl(Subprocess.java:127)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.Subprocess.execute(Subprocess.java:159)
    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.lambda$process$16(CFamilySensor.java:917)
    at com.sonar.cpp.analyzer.AnalysisExecutor.lambda$submit$0(AnalysisExecutor.java:59)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
18:32:32.240 INFO  [7/323] Finished analyzing: D:/GitLab-Runner/builds/path/to/project/LibraryName/MatrixMethods.cpp (4158ms)
18:32:32.242 ERROR 
An error occurred while analyzing the following compilation unit: 
  D:/GitLab-Runner/builds/path/to/project/Application/Activate.cpp
A file named "sonar-cfamily-reproducer.tar.xz" has been generated to help the problem investigation.
Please contact SonarSource support providing the following file to help improving the analyzer:
  D:\GitLab-Runner\builds\path\to\project\sonar-cfamily-reproducer.tar.xz
18:32:56.260 ERROR Error during SonarScanner Engine execution
java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
An error occurred while analyzing the following compilation unit: 
  D:/GitLab-Runner/builds/path/to/project/Application/Activate.cpp
A file named "sonar-cfamily-reproducer.tar.xz" has been generated to help the problem investigation.
Please contact SonarSource support providing the following file to help improving the analyzer:
  D:\GitLab-Runner\builds\path\to\project\sonar-cfamily-reproducer.tar.xz
    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.logReproducerGeneration(CFamilySensor.java:956)
    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.process(CFamilySensor.java:271)
    at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.execute(CFamilySensor.java:199)
    at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.AbstractSensorWrapper.analyse(AbstractSensorWrapper.java:69)
    at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:88)
    at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:64)
    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.SpringModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(SpringModuleScanContainer.java:80)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.startComponents(SpringComponentContainer.java:227)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.execute(SpringComponentContainer.java:206)
    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.SpringProjectScanContainer.scan(SpringProjectScanContainer.java:212)
    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.SpringProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(SpringProjectScanContainer.java:208)
    at org.sonar.scanner.scan.SpringProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(SpringProjectScanContainer.java:178)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.startComponents(SpringComponentContainer.java:227)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.execute(SpringComponentContainer.java:206)
    at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.SpringScannerContainer.doAfterStart(SpringScannerContainer.java:339)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.startComponents(SpringComponentContainer.java:227)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.execute(SpringComponentContainer.java:206)
    at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.SpringGlobalContainer.doAfterStart(SpringGlobalContainer.java:142)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.startComponents(SpringComponentContainer.java:227)
    at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.execute(SpringComponentContainer.java:206)
    at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.ScannerMain.runScannerEngine(ScannerMain.java:157)
    at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.ScannerMain.run(ScannerMain.java:72)
    at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.ScannerMain.main(ScannerMain.java:56)
18:32:56.362 INFO  EXECUTION FAILURE
18:32:56.366 INFO  Total time: 1:06.527s

The files the scanner is failing on are not consistent.

It was working fine with 2025.3. Scan does succeed with Autoconfig but the scanner itself recommends not using it:

04:50:30.295 WARN C and C++ AutoConfig is discouraged for this project. Consider setting the properties in `Project Administration > General Settings > C / C++ / Objective-C > AutoConfig Settings`. Otherwise, please switch to Compilation Database based analysis for better analysis quality.

Even after setting the recommended properties, the scanner still misses nearly 40% of the issues compared to the build-wrapper output.

After some research on this forum, I found that someone had encountered a similar issue a year ago:
https://community.sonarsource.com/t/exception-seen-com-sonar-cpp-analyzer-analyzer-analyzerexception-with-new-cfamily-version/117473

That error appeared to be fixed shortly after in CFamily v6.57:
https://sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/CPP-5415

However, it seems to be happening again on our side with CFamily version 6.72.0.89435 and SonarQube 2025.5.

The issue appears to be the same: the analysis works again as soon as I disable PCH generation by adding the following property to all our .vcxproj files:

<PrecompiledHeader>NotUsing</PrecompiledHeader>

Thanks to this workaround, the analysis now completes successfully. However, disabling PCH has significantly impacted our build times:

  • 11 minutes without build-wrapper

  • 25 minutes with build-wrapper

  • 55 minutes with build-wrapper and PCH disabled

If someone from the Sonar team would like to see a reproducer, I can provide one. I also tried reaching out to some of our contacts at Sonar with all this information a few weeks ago, but I believe the email may have been missed.

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Hello @Forgh,

Thank you for the detailed report. You’ve already done the hard part by narrowing this down to Precompiled Headers (PCH).

We’ve verified the old issue (CPP-5415) is still fixed, To help us investigate, could you please provide the sonar-cfamily-reproducer.tar.xz file?

If you prefer to share it privately, just let me know, and I’ll start a private thread.

Thanks.

6

Hello, thank you for answering m. Yes, please start a private thread, as this is a company’s private project and IP

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Hello @Forgh,

We’ve identified the root cause and have opened an internal ticket to track it. I’ll update this thread once the fix is released. We are working to resolve this as soon as possible, but we don’t have a specific timeline to share right now.

Thanks for taking the time to report the issue.