Recipe tools

Tools are all things that can be imported and used in Conan recipes.

The import path is always like:

from conan.tools.cmake import CMakeToolchain, CMakeDeps, CMake
from conan.tools.microsoft import MSBuildToolchain, MSBuildDeps, MSBuild

The main guidelines are:

• Everything that recipes can import belong to from conan.tools. Any other thing is private implementation and shouldn’t be used in recipes.

• Only documented, public (not preceded by _) tools can be used in recipes.

Contents:

• conan.tools.android
  • android_abi()
• conan.tools.apple
  • XcodeDeps
  • XcodeToolchain
  • XcodeBuild
  • conan.tools.apple.fix_apple_shared_install_name()
  • conan.tools.apple.is_apple_os()
  • conan.tools.apple.to_apple_arch()
  • conan.tools.apple.XCRun()
• conan.tools.build
  • Building
  • Cppstd
  • cstd
• conan.tools.cmake
  • CMakeDeps
  • CMakeToolchain
  • CMake
  • cmake_layout
• conan.tools.CppInfo
  • Aggregating information in custom generators
• conan.tools.env
  • Environment
  • EnvVars
  • VirtualBuildEnv
  • VirtualRunEnv
• conan.tools.files
  • conan.tools.files basic operations
  • conan.tools.files downloads
  • conan.tools.files patches
  • conan.tools.files checksums
  • conan.tools.files.symlinks
  • conan.tools.files AutoPackager
• conan.tools.gnu
  • AutotoolsDeps
  • AutotoolsToolchain
  • Autotools
  • MakeDeps
  • PkgConfigDeps
  • PkgConfig
• conan.tools.google
  • Bazel
  • BazelDeps
  • BazelToolchain
• conan.tools.intel
  • IntelCC
  • Reference
• conan.tools.layout
  • Predefined layouts
  • basic_layout
• conan.tools.meson
  • MesonToolchain
  • Meson
• conan.tools.microsoft
  • MSBuild
  • MSBuildDeps
  • MSBuildToolchain
  • VCVars
  • NMakeDeps
  • NMakeToolchain
  • vs_layout
  • conan.tools.microsoft.visual
  • conan.tools.microsoft.subsystems
• conan.tools.qbs
  • Qbs
  • QbsDeps
  • QbsProfile
• conan.tools.ros
  • ROSEnv
• conan.tools.sbom
  • CycloneDX
• conan.tools.scm
  • Git
  • Version
• conan.tools.scons
  • SConsDeps
• conan.tools.premake
  • Premake
  • PremakeDeps
• conan.tools.system
  • conan.tools.system.package_manager