Tutorial

The purpose of this section is to guide you through the most important Conan features with practical examples. From using libraries already packaged by Conan, to how to package your libraries and store them on a remote server alongside all the precompiled binaries.

• Consuming packages
  • Build a simple CMake project using Conan
  • Using build tools as Conan packages
  • Building for multiple configurations: Release, Debug, Static and Shared
  • Understanding the flexibility of using conanfile.py vs conanfile.txt
  • How to cross-compile your applications using Conan: host and build contexts
  • Introduction to versioning
• Creating packages
  • Create your first Conan package
  • Handle sources in packages
  • Add dependencies to packages
  • Preparing the build
  • Configure settings and options in recipes
  • Build packages: the build() method
  • Package files: the package() method
  • Define information for consumers: the package_info() method
  • Testing Conan packages
  • Other types of packages
• Working with Conan repositories
  • Setting up a Conan remote
  • Uploading Packages
  • Contributing to Conan Center
  • Local Recipes Index Repository
• Developing packages locally
  • Package Development Flow
  • Packages in editable mode
  • Understanding the Conan Package layout
  • Workspaces
• Versioning
  • Versions
  • Version ranges
  • Revisions
  • Lockfiles
  • Dependencies conflicts
• Other important Conan features
  • python_requires
  • Packages lists
  • Removing unused packages from the cache

Note

The Conan 2 Essentials training course is available for free at the JFrog Academy, which covers the same topics as this documentation but in a more interactive way. You can access it here.