[CONFIG] [Github Actions] trying to collect better coverage to sonarcloud using newer lcov tool available on homebrew instead of available in ubuntu-24.

Author: Gonzalo Diaz

.github/workflows/sonarcloud.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ on: # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
 jobs:
   build:
     name: SonarCloud build and run sonar-scanner
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on: macos-14
     env:
       # Directory where build-wrapper output will be placed
       BUILD_WRAPPER_OUT_DIR: build
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Tools
         run: |
           sudo rm /usr/lib/python3.*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED
-          sudo apt-get install lcov
+          # lcov is available via homebrew
+          brew install lcov
+          # To convert gcov data to cobertura/xml format for SonarCloud
           pip install gcovr
 
       - name: Check Tools
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run build-wrapper
         run: |
           export VCPKG_ROOT=/usr/local/share/vcpkg
-          build-wrapper-linux-x86-64 --out-dir ${{ env.BUILD_WRAPPER_OUT_DIR }} make build
+          build-wrapper-macosx-x86-64 --out-dir ${{ env.BUILD_WRAPPER_OUT_DIR }} make build
       # yamllint enable rule:line-length
 
       - name: Run tests to generate coverage statistics