C/C++ AutoConfig and Sonar features

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Hello there

I used to be an active user of Sonar products in different companies. Now i changed completely field and I’m working in IoT .

One of the main pain point here are builds in C, as you can imagine a lot of information are required (compiler, flags, proper make file etc.) in oder to build correctly the project. This is quite a problem for a SAST tool, even for the more sophisticated once.

My question is: i stambled across the AutoConfig feature from Sonar but i can not understand wheter this would be supported also for complex C projects. Ergo: is it also capable of “auto configuring” the scan also for C? Or is some extra configuration required too?

Thank you very much for your time and help

Best

Matteo

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Just give it a try :wink: As reported in another post I got a message “AutoConfig is discouraged for this project” for a mixed C#/C++23 solution with Visual Studio 2022 and then switched to use the build wrapper again.

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Hi @mdvzug and welcome to the community,

Yes, C is officially supported by AutoConfig. It is also possible to improve the heuristics employed by AutoConfig by tweaking these properties.

Best regards,
Michael

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