SourceMonitor using C and C++ at same project

Question

Using SourceMonitor xml command file, I'm trying to analyze a whole checked out repository from Git that I know for a fact that it has both C and C++ code in the same directory.

This a snippet of my XML command file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<sourcemonitor_commands>
<command>
<project_file>testproj.smproj</project_file>
<checkpoint_name>Baseline</checkpoint_name>
<project_language>C++</project_language>
<source_directory>C:\Users\....</source_directory>
.......
</command>

In the GUI I added manually other type of extensions and it worked! I tried adding this line in the above xml file but this resulted in zero values for the metrics for the .C files:

<file_extensions>*.h,*.cpp,*.c,*.pdl</file_extensions>

What am I doing wrong? and is this even possible? I want to do it all in just one SourceMonitor project not more than that.

also, are your c files using `.C` extension (uppercase)?. That could be the issue. — Jean-François Fabre, Jan 25 '18 at 21:24
Why do you have C and C++ code at the same project? Just separate them. — user7860670, Jan 25 '18 at 21:47
@Jean-FrançoisFabre I tried it, still zero metrics are generated. — Nerminz, Jan 26 '18 at 13:25
@VTT because I'm trying to analyze a whole repository not only a project. — Nerminz, Jan 26 '18 at 13:25
@VTT That's not always possible. Let's say you want to use a library that is only in C++ (openCV for example), and you want your program to be in C. You will need some files in C++ to interface to the library, and the rest in good'ol C — alx - recommends codidact, May 13 '19 at 12:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '19 at 12:12

Create two separate SourceMonitor projects for your software corpus.

The fact that you cannot get one software metric from a mixed-language Project reflects the way SourceMonitor is designed. It's built around /values/ of metrics, that can be shown, compared, sorted... Each language has its own set of metrics (the class metrics of C++ are not applicable in C). There are also different "green zones" for same-name metrics of different languages.

The practical value of combining several languages would be of limited value: How would you, for example, compare two files of different programming languages in terms of their Max complexity?

To illustrate this: You double-click on a checkpoint to get a table with absolute values of all metrics involved, file by file, in alphabetic order (File Name). All metric values in these tables are absolute ones. By clicking on the corresponding header, you can sort for the criterion you are most interested in (typically, the file responsible for an extreme value of the checkpoint).

SourceMonitor using C and C++ at same project

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