Integrating with CMake

On non-Windows systems, you can translate projects that are built with CMake by incorporating a JSON compilation database in the OpenText SAST command. This is only supported for Makefile and Ninja generators (see the CMake Reference Documentation for more information).

To integrate OpenText SAST with a CMake build:

1. Generate a compile_commands.json file for your CMake project.

   Add -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=yes to the cmake configure command. For example:

    cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=yes

2. Include the JSON compilation database in your sourceanalyzer command as follows:

   sourceanalyzer -b <build_id> compile_commands.json