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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+name: sonarcloud
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: Build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      SONAR_SCANNER_VERSION: 4.4.0.2170
+      SONAR_SERVER_URL: "https://sonarcloud.io"
+      BUILD_WRAPPER_OUT_DIR: build_wrapper_output_directory # Directory where build-wrapper output will be placed
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0  # Shallow clones should be disabled for a better relevancy of analysis
+          path: main
+
+      - name: Set up JDK 11
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+        with:
+          java-version: 11
+
+      - name: 'Configure Dependencies - Ubuntu'
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev
+
+      - name: Download and set up sonar-scanner
+        env:
+          SONAR_SCANNER_DOWNLOAD_URL: https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonar-scanner-cli/sonar-scanner-cli-${{ env.SONAR_SCANNER_VERSION }}-linux.zip
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p $HOME/.sonar
+          curl -sSLo $HOME/.sonar/sonar-scanner.zip ${{ env.SONAR_SCANNER_DOWNLOAD_URL }} 
+          unzip -o $HOME/.sonar/sonar-scanner.zip -d $HOME/.sonar/
+          echo "$HOME/.sonar/sonar-scanner-${{ env.SONAR_SCANNER_VERSION }}-linux/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+
+      - name: Download and set up build-wrapper
+        env:
+          BUILD_WRAPPER_DOWNLOAD_URL: ${{ env.SONAR_SERVER_URL }}/static/cpp/build-wrapper-linux-x86.zip
+        run: |
+          curl -sSLo $HOME/.sonar/build-wrapper-linux-x86.zip ${{ env.BUILD_WRAPPER_DOWNLOAD_URL }}
+          unzip -o $HOME/.sonar/build-wrapper-linux-x86.zip -d $HOME/.sonar/
+          echo "$HOME/.sonar/build-wrapper-linux-x86" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+
+      - name: Run build-wrapper
+        run: |
+          cd main
+          mkdir build
+          cmake -DBUILD_TESTING=off -S . -B build
+          build-wrapper-linux-x86-64 --out-dir ${{ env.BUILD_WRAPPER_OUT_DIR }} cmake --build build/ --config Release
+
+      - name: Run sonar-scanner
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          SONAR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONARCLOUD_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          cd main
+          sonar-scanner --define sonar.host.url="${{ env.SONAR_SERVER_URL }}" --define sonar.cfamily.build-wrapper-output="${{ env.BUILD_WRAPPER_OUT_DIR }}"
+
diff --git a/sonar-project.properties b/sonar-project.properties
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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+sonar.projectKey=log4cxx
+sonar.organization=apache
+
+# This is the name and version displayed in the SonarCloud UI.
+#sonar.projectName=logging-log4cxx
+#sonar.projectVersion=1.0
+
+# Path is relative to the sonar-project.properties file. Replace "\" by "/" on Windows.
+#sonar.sources=.
+
+# Encoding of the source code. Default is default system encoding
+#sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8