The General tab, as shown in the figure below, specifies the disk locations of your Coverity Analysis tools, including license files, as well as your code base directory.
This information is required for running local analyses and creating authentication key files for connecting to Coverity Connect (see Coverity Connect for details).
- Static Analysis tools
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The full path to your Coverity Analysis installation directory. This is required for local analysis.
- License file
- The location of your license.dat file, which contains your existing Coverity Analysis license. The default location is <install_dir>/bin.
- Code base directory
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The plug-in will store additional Coverity configuration information in the specified directory, as well as look for a coverity.conf file here. The coverity.conf file may be created by your Coverity Connect or analysis administrator, and used to specify configuration information common to all developers. See the Coverity Desktop Analysis: User Guide for additional details.