How can I analyze the project with the sonar-project.properties file located in the subdirectory?

[codeluyor (Abdussamed)]

The relevant section of my project directory is as follows:

> |- Project_Source
  |   >|- configs
  |    |  >|- sonar-project.properties
  |    |  >|- CMakeList.txt
  |    |  >|- // other config files ...
  |   >|- executable
  |   >|- inc
  |   >|- drv
  |   >|- src-common

My commands are as follows:

cd Project_Source
cd configs
mkdir build-sonarqube
cd build-sonarqube
cmake ..
cd ..
build-wrapper-linux-x86-64 --out-dir bw-output cmake --build build-sonarqube/ --config Release 
sonar-scanner -Dsonar.projectKey=... -Dsonar.cfamily.build-wrapper-output=bw-output -Dsonar.host.url=http://... -Dsonar.login=....

Before this editing, the files in the “configs” folder were placed under “project_source” and analysis output was obtained without any problems. Since I wanted to ensure code integrity and keep it in a separate place, I wanted to analyze it by taking it to a subfolder (of course, I rearranged the relative and absolute paths) but as a result, 0 files were analyzed.

The analysis is a success, but the number of scanned files shows 0, what exactly is the reason for this?

[Colin]

You will need to initiate the scan from the root directory you want to scan. If you can’t keep the sonar-project.properties file there, you should point to it as documented

• The property project.settings can be used to specify the path to the project configuration file (this option is incompatible with the sonar.projectBaseDir property). Ex:

sonar-scanner -Dproject.settings=../myproject.properties

[codeluyor (Abdussamed)]

So you mean move the sonar-project.properties file to the root of the project?

[Colin]

It’s one option – or take the other option suggested and use -Dproject.settings to point to the properties file in the subdirectory, while still initiating the scan from the root of the project.

[codeluyor (Abdussamed)]

Unfortunately, I tried this command after your previous comment, and the result is successful but the file analysis still shows 0.

[Colin]

I would suggest sharing the logs from your scanner command.

[codeluyor (Abdussamed)]

I could not reply because of a long break, there was a place I missed in the path configuration definition, and the problem has been fixed.