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I could not get CMake to build with Coverity. I am new to CMake and not sure how to fix this problem. I am able to build sample program with this command:

cov-build --dir . gcc sample.cc -o sample.o
However, when I tried to build with CMake
cov-build --dir . cmake ../
I am getting the no emit error:
Coverity Build Capture (64-bit) version 2017.07 on Linux 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64
Internal version numbers: 7a4de27b47 p-milo-push-30112.654
-- Using Build Type provided on command line
-- Library config4cpp Found
-- CONFIG4CPP_INCLUDE_DIRS=/opt/config4cpp/include
-- CONFIG4CPP_LIBRARIES=/opt/config4cpp/lib/libconfig4cpp.a
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/hitp6130/pulsar
[WARNING] No files were emitted. This may be due to a problem with your configuration
or because no files were actually compiled by your build command.
Please make sure you have configured the compilers actually used in the compilation.
 For more details, please look at:
    /home/hitp6130/pulsar/build/build-log.txt
                cmake doesn't build the project - it just configures it. For build configured project you need to run make from the build directory.
– Tsyvarev
                Jul 18, 2018 at 7:33
                alright, thanks for the answer.  I tried the following and still got the "No files were emitted" warning: cmake . then cov-build --dir . make
– long
                Jul 18, 2018 at 18:19
                Probably, you CMake project actually don't compile any file. Without viewing that project (in form of minimal reproducible example) we can only guess.
– Tsyvarev
                Jul 18, 2018 at 22:07
                my project can build fine using cmake then make-j;  the executable was created using these 2 commands.  I just need to incoorporate coverity to do thread analysis
– long
                Jul 18, 2018 at 22:11
                <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE coverity SYSTEM "coverity_config.dtd"> <coverity> <!-- Version 2017.07 -->     <cit_version>1</cit_version>     <config>       <include>$CONFIGDIR$/template-gcc-config-0/coverity_config.xml</include>       <include>$CONFIGDIR$/template-g++-config-0/coverity_config.xml</include>       <include>$CONFIGDIR$/template-gcc-config-1/coverity_config.xml</include>       <include>$CONFIGDIR$/template-gcc-config-2/coverity_config.xml</include>       <include>$CONFIGDIR$/template-g++-config-
– long
                Jul 19, 2018 at 21:30
                <include>$CONFIGDIR$/template-ld-config-0/coverity_config.xml</include>     </config> </coverity>
– long
                Jul 19, 2018 at 21:31
Arcoding to the coverity guidline, I think cmake is not the simple case, and you need the full version of the command as bellow:
cov-configure  --template --compiler <compiler-binary-name> --comptype <compiler-type>
Example:
cov-configure --config cc-config.xml --template --comptype gcc --compiler cc
cmake ..
cov-build --dir <build-dir> --config cc-config.xml make
cc-config.xml is the configuration file which coverity generate. You can use different name as you need.
        
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