ci: Switch to CodeQL Autobuild for compiled code

QuLogic · QuLogic · commit d6701941f135 · 2024-02-02T01:20:00.000-05:00
With the switch to Meson, CodeQL seemed to have started ignoring all our
compiled code, presumably due to meson-python putting things in a random
build directory.

Since all that is necessary is a compile, we don't need all the Python
metadata, and since the Autobuild step supports Meson, so we can just
have it run it itself. We do need to install our build dependencies, but
this is much shorter than before.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml
@@ -28,25 +28,19 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        if: matrix.language != 'javascript'
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.x'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        if: matrix.language == 'c-cpp'
+        run: pip install meson ninja numpy pybind11 setuptools-scm
 
       - name: Initialize CodeQL
         uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
         with:
           languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
           setup-python-dependencies: false
+          debug: true
 
-      - name: Build compiled code
-        if: matrix.language == 'c-cpp'
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p ~/.cache/matplotlib
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
-          python -m pip install --upgrade build
-          python -m build
+      - name: CodeQL Autobuild
+        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v3
 
       - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
         uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
