PremakeDeps

Warning

This feature is experimental and subject to breaking changes. See the Conan stability section for more information.

The PremakeDeps is the dependencies generator for Premake. The generator can be used by name in conanfiles:

conanfile.py

class Pkg(ConanFile):
    generators = "PremakeDeps"

conanfile.txt

[generators]
PremakeDeps

And it can also be fully instantiated in the conanfile generate() method:

from conan import ConanFile
from conan.tools.premake import PremakeDeps

class App(ConanFile):
    settings = "os", "arch", "compiler", "build_type"
    requires = "zlib/1.3.1"

    def generate(self):
        deps = PremakeDeps(self)
        deps.generate()

Important

The PremakeDeps generator must be used in conjunction with the PremakeToolchain generator, as it will generate a include('conandeps.premake5.lua') that will be automatically included by the toolchain.

Generated files

PremakeDeps will generate a conandeps.premake5.lua script file which will be injected later by the toolchain and the following files per dependency in the conanfile.generators_folder:

• conan_<pkg>.premake5.lua: will be including the proper script depending on the build_type and architecture.

• conan_<pkg>_vars_<config>.premake5.lua: will contain essentially the following information for the specific dependency, architecture and build_type:

  • includedirs

  • libdirs

  • bindirs

  • sysincludedirs

  • frameworkdirs

  • frameworks

  • libs

  • syslibs

  • defines

  • cxxflags

  • cflags

  • sharedlinkflags

  • exelinkflags

All this information will be loaded in the conandeps.premake5.lua script and injected later to the main premake script, allowing a transparent and easy to use dependency management with conan.