diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index 2689962f8..4977228f0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         include:
         - language: c-cpp
-          build-mode: manual
+          build-mode: autobuild
         - language: python
           build-mode: none
         # CodeQL supports the following values keywords for 'language': 'c-cpp', 'csharp', 'go', 'java-kotlin', 'javascript-typescript', 'python', 'ruby', 'swift'