CodeQl GitHub in MacOS

Follow these steps to get it to run in your machine:

1. Pick the right version and release for your OS:

https://github.com/github/codeql-cli-binaries/releases

2- Extract the files and place them on a folder in you machine.

sudo chmod +x codeql

4. Using symbolic link add that to your OS’s binary folder
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ln -s /the/place/of/the/codeql /usr/local/bin

5. Test this to see if the binary works from any place
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codeql --help 
# This will list all the supported languages by codeql by default 
codeql resolve languages


6. (Optional) You can download some “CodeQL packs” containing pre-compiled queries you would like to run. To do this, run codeql pack download <pack-name> [...pack-name], where pack-name is the name of the pack you want to download. The core query packs are a good place to start. They are:
• codeql/cpp-queries
• codeql/csharp-queries
• codeql/go-queries
• codeql/java-queries
• codeql/javascript-queries
• codeql/python-queries
• codeql/ruby-queries

Alternatively, you can download query packs during the analysis by using the --download  flag of the codeql database analyze  command.