make

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This generators creates a file named conanbuildinfo.mak with information of dependencies in different variables that can be used for your make builds.

Variables

Variables per package. The <PKG-NAME> placeholder is filled with the name of the Conan package.

NAME	VALUE
CONAN_ROOT_<PKG-NAME>	Absolute path to root package folder
CONAN_SYSROOT_<PKG-NAME>	System root folder
CONAN_INCLUDE_DIRS_<PKG-NAME>	Headers folders
CONAN_LIB_DIRS_<PKG-NAME>	Library folders
CONAN_BIN_DIRS_<PKG-NAME>	Binary folders
CONAN_BUILD_DIRS_<PKG-NAME>	Build folders
CONAN_RES_DIRS_<PKG-NAME>	Resources folders
CONAN_LIBS_<PKG-NAME>	Library names to link with
CONAN_SYSTEM_LIBS_<PKG-NAME>	System library names to link with
CONAN_DEFINES_<PKG-NAME>	Library definitions
CONAN_CFLAGS_<PKG-NAME>	Options for the C compiler (-g, -s, -m64, -m32, -fPIC)
CONAN_CXXFLAGS_<PKG-NAME>	Options for the C++ compiler (-g, -s, -stdlib, -m64, -m32, -fPIC, -std)
CONAN_SHAREDLINKFLAGS_<PKG-NAME>	Library Shared linker flags
CONAN_EXELINK_FLAGS_<PKG-NAME>	Executable linker flags
CONAN_FRAMEWORKS_<PKG-NAME>	Frameworks (OSX)
CONAN_FRAMEWORK_PATHS_<PKG-NAME>	Framework folders (OSX) (default {CONAN_XXX_ROOT}/Frameworks

Conan also declares some global variables with the aggregated values of all our requirements. The values are ordered in the right order according to the dependency tree.

NAME	VALUE
CONAN_ROOTPATH	Aggregated root folders
CONAN_SYSROOT	Aggregated system root folders
CONAN_INCLUDE_DIRS	Aggregated header folders
CONAN_LIB_DIRS	Aggregated library folders
CONAN_BIN_DIRS	Aggregated binary folders
CONAN_BUILD_DIRS	Aggregated build folders
CONAN_RES_DIRS	Aggregated resource folders
CONAN_LIBS	Aggregated library names to link with
CONAN_SYSTEM_LIBS	Aggregated system library names to link with
CONAN_DEFINES	Aggregated library definitions
CONAN_CFLAGS	Aggregated options for the C compiler
CONAN_CXXFLAGS	Aggregated options for the C++ compiler
CONAN_SHAREDLINKFLAGS	Aggregated Shared linker flags
CONAN_EXELINKFLAGS	Aggregated Executable linker flags
CONAN_FRAMEWORKS	Aggregated frameworks (OSX)
CONAN_FRAMEWORK_PATHS	Aggregated framework folders (OSX)

Important

Note that the mapping of the Conan variables to the Make ones is done taking the following rules and we suggest to use the variables indicated under the Makefile column to apply to a common naming:

cpp_info	conanbuildinfo.mak	Makefile
defines	CONAN_DEFINES	CPPFLAGS
includedirs	CONAN_INCLUDE_DIRS	CPPFLAGS
libdirs	CONAN_LIB_DIRS	LDFLAGS
libs	CONAN_LIBS	LDLIBS
SYSTEM_LIBS	CONAN_SYSTEM_LIBS
cflags	CONAN_CFLAGS	CFLAGS
cxxflags	CONAN_CXXFLAGS	CXXFLAGS