FindBugs: please build project before running sonar

Question

I am getting error

ERROR: Caused by: Findbugs needs sources to be compiled. Please build project before executing sonar and check the location of compiled classes.

If I run sonarrunner with the SonarQube default profile for java "Sonar way" everything is fine but running using the new rules which contains FindBugs as repository key causes the issues. I have also tried to use sonar.binaries=folder of the build classes but that is also not helping the issue.

Answer 1

I ran into this because I was running sonar:sonar before the install phase, and so the sources weren't compiled yet. Running it after fixed it for me.