The Compilation Database JSON file was found empty

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I run Sonar Cloud scanner manually and try to build the project, Project is build sucessfully using below command :-

build-wrapper-macosx-x86 --out-dir bw-output xcodebuild clean build -workspace Project.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName
**** BUILD SUCCEEDED ****

But when i tried to run the scanner command it will gave me error :-

sonar-scanner
-Dsonar.organization=xyzdigital
-Dsonar.projectKey=xyzdigital_ios-app
-Dsonar.sources=.
-Dsonar.cfamily.compile-commands=bw-output/compile_commands.json
-Dsonar.host.url=https://sonarcloud.io

16:32:36.658 ERROR Error during SonarScanner Engine execution
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The Compilation Database JSON file was found empty. Please make sure to provide a non-empty file:
/Users/ABC/Documents/xyzdigital_ios-app/bw-output/compile_commands.json

at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.process(CFamilySensor.java:303)
at com.sonar.cpp.plugin.CFamilySensor.execute(CFamilySensor.java:183)
at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.AbstractSensorWrapper.analyse(AbstractSensorWrapper.java:63)
at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:75)
at org.sonar.scanner.sensor.ModuleSensorsExecutor.execute(ModuleSensorsExecutor.java:51)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:64)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:123)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:109)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:192)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:188)
at org.sonar.scanner.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:159)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:123)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:109)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.ScannerContainer.doAfterStart(ScannerContainer.java:416)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:123)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:109)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.GlobalContainer.doAfterStart(GlobalContainer.java:128)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:123)
at org.sonar.core.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:109)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.ScannerMain.runScannerEngine(ScannerMain.java:135)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.ScannerMain.run(ScannerMain.java:52)
at org.sonar.scanner.bootstrap.ScannerMain.main(ScannerMain.java:38)

16:32:37.142 INFO EXECUTION FAILURE
16:32:37.148 INFO Total time: 2:43.685s

MACOS Version :- 14.4 (23E214)

Xcode Version :- 15.1 (15C65)

Based on [CPP-4941] - Jira

2

Hey there!

It seems you’ve already found the ticket describing the issue and the workaround. Were you able to follow the steps inside?

3

Hi There,

I tried the same steps but i got some error related to pods files.

Command which we tried :-

xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName OTHER_CFLAGS=“$(inherited) -gen-cdb-fragment-path $(/Users/XYZ/Documents/projectName)/CompilationDatabase”

pushd ~/CompilationDatabase

sed -e ‘1s/^/['$’\n’‘/’ -e ‘$s/,$/'$’\n’‘]/’ *.json > …/compile_commands.json

popd

Error we got :-

PhaseScriptExecution [CP]\ Copy\ XCFrameworks /Users/xyz/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/xyz-gzdhdfrodipelobkclgbsiutvqvh/Build/Intermediates.noindex/Pods.build/Dev-iphoneos/ABCPOD.build/Script-BAD188F2B3A0595A7525F4143A5D921D.sh (in target ‘ABCPOD’ from project ‘Pods’)
ExtractAppIntentsMetadata (in target ‘ABCPOD2’ from project ‘Pods’)

and we can’t try to disable SIP beacuse we are using our organisation assets.

So do we have any other solution for this?

4

Which step gave you the error?

5

We got the Error when we run below command :-

xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName OTHER_CFLAGS=“$(inherited) -gen-cdb-fragment-path $(/Users/XYZ/Documents/projectName)/CompilationDatabase”

pushd ~/CompilationDatabase

sed -e ‘1s/^/[‘$’\n’‘/’ -e ‘$s/,$/’$’\n’‘]/’ *.json > …/compile_commands.json

popd

6

Those are 4 seperate commands. Have you tried running them one at a time?

7

We tried all the comands one by one.

first we hit
xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName OTHER_CFLAGS=“$(inherited) -gen-cdb-fragment-path $(/Users/XYZ/Documents/projectName)/CompilationDatabase”

then
pushd ~/CompilationDatabase

8

So pushd gave the error, not xcodebuild? xcodeBuild completed successfully?

9

No Its failing in first command itself :-

xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName OTHER_CFLAGS=“$(inherited) -gen-cdb-fragment-path $(/Users/XYZ/Documents/projectName)/CompilationDatabase”

10

I think it’s important next that you try and figure out which change specifically leads the command to fail.

I assume that without either of these additions, your build is successful.

OTHER_CFLAGS="\$(inherited)?

-gen-cdb-fragment-path \$(PROJECT_DIR)/CompilationDatabase"?

So you can try:

xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName OTHER_CFLAGS=“$(inherited)

and

xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName -gen-cdb-fragment-path \$(PROJECT_DIR)/CompilationDatabase"

Does one succeed and the other fail?

11

Hi

We try below command
xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName OTHER_CFLAGS=“$(inherited)

with above command we are getting below errror :-
ExtractAppIntentsMetadata (in target ‘PodName’ from project ‘Pods’)

and then we try below command

xcodebuild clean build -workspace projectName.xcworkspace -scheme ProjectName -gen-cdb-fragment-path $(PROJECT_DIR)/CompilationDatabase"

with this above command we are getting below error :-
xcodebuild: error: invalid option ‘-gen-cdb-fragment-path’

14

Hello,

I think it would be easier if we had the build logs so we could see what the commands look like without formatting issues.

I can send you a private message so you can share them, would that be OK?

15

Hello,

Can you please share your sonar support email, we will share the logs on email.
As per company policy we will required to share a details through email only.