conan profile¶
Manage profiles
conan profile detect¶
$ conan profile detect -h
WARN: Downgrading cache from Conan 2.7.1 to 2.5.0
usage: conan profile detect [-h] [-v [V]] [-cc CORE_CONF] [--name NAME] [-f]
[-e]
Generate a profile using auto-detected values.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v [V] Level of detail of the output. Valid options from less
verbose to more verbose: -vquiet, -verror, -vwarning,
-vnotice, -vstatus, -v or -vverbose, -vv or -vdebug,
-vvv or -vtrace
-cc CORE_CONF, --core-conf CORE_CONF
Define core configuration, overwriting global.conf
values. E.g.: -cc core:non_interactive=True
--name NAME Profile name, 'default' if not specified
-f, --force Overwrite if exists
-e, --exist-ok If the profile already exist, do not detect a new one
Warning
The output of conan profile detect
is not stable. It can change at any time in future Conan releases
to adapt to latest tools, latest versions, or other changes in the environment.
See the Conan stability section for more information.
You can create a new auto-detected profile for your configuration using:
$ conan profile detect
Found apple-clang 14.0
apple-clang>=13, using the major as version
Detected profile:
[settings]
arch=x86_64
build_type=Release
compiler=apple-clang
compiler.cppstd=gnu17
compiler.libcxx=libc++
compiler.version=14
os=Macos
WARN: This profile is a guess of your environment, please check it.
WARN: Defaulted to cppstd='gnu17' for apple-clang.
WARN: The output of this command is not guaranteed to be stable and can change in future Conan versions.
WARN: Use your own profile files for stability.
Saving detected profile to /Users/barbarians/.conan2/profiles/default
Be aware that if the profile already exists you have to use --force
to overwrite it. Otherwise it will fail
$ conan profile detect
ERROR: Profile '/Users/carlosz/.conan2/profiles/default' already exists
$ conan profile detect --force
Found apple-clang 14.0
...
Saving detected profile to /Users/carlosz/.conan2/profiles/default
Note
Best practices
It is not recommended to use conan profile detect
in production. To guarantee reproducibility,
it is recommended to define your own profiles, store them in a git repo or in a zip in a server,
and distribute it to your team and CI machines with conan config install
, together with other
configuration like custom settings, custom remotes definition, etc.
conan profile list¶
$ conan profile list -h
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usage: conan profile list [-h] [-f FORMAT] [-v [V]] [-cc CORE_CONF]
List all profiles in the cache.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
Select the output format: json
-v [V] Level of detail of the output. Valid options from less
verbose to more verbose: -vquiet, -verror, -vwarning,
-vnotice, -vstatus, -v or -vverbose, -vv or -vdebug,
-vvv or -vtrace
-cc CORE_CONF, --core-conf CORE_CONF
Define core configuration, overwriting global.conf
values. E.g.: -cc core:non_interactive=True
$ conan profile list
Profiles found in the cache:
default
ios_base
ios_simulator
clang_15
conan profile path¶
$ conan
WARN: Downgrading cache from Conan 2.6.0 to 2.5.0
Consumer commands
cache Perform file operations in the local cache (of recipes and/or packages).
config Manage the Conan configuration in the Conan home.
graph Compute a dependency graph, without installing or building the binaries.
inspect Inspect a conanfile.py to return its public fields.
install Install the requirements specified in a recipe (conanfile.py or conanfile.txt).
list List existing recipes, revisions, or packages in the cache (by default) or the
remotes.
lock Create or manage lockfiles.
pkglist Several operations over package lists
profile Manage profiles.
remote Manage the remote list and the users authenticated on them.
remove Remove recipes or packages from local cache or a remote.
search Search for package recipes in all the remotes (by default), or a remote.
version Give information about the Conan client version.
Creator commands
build Install dependencies and call the build() method.
create Create a package.
download Download (without installing) a single conan package from a remote server.
editable Allow working with a package that resides in user folder.
export Export a recipe to the Conan package cache.
export-pkg Create a package directly from pre-compiled binaries.
new Create a new example recipe and source files from a template.
source Call the source() method.
test Test a package from a test_package folder.
upload Upload packages to a remote.
Type "conan <command> -h" for help
Use to get the profile location in your [CONAN_HOME]
folder:
$ conan profile path default
/Users/barbarians/.conan2/profiles/default
conan profile show¶
$ conan profile show -h
WARN: Downgrading cache from Conan 2.8.1 to 2.5.0
usage: conan profile show [-h] [-f FORMAT] [-v [V]] [-cc CORE_CONF]
[-pr PROFILE] [-pr:b PROFILE_BUILD]
[-pr:h PROFILE_HOST] [-pr:a PROFILE_ALL]
[-o OPTIONS] [-o:b OPTIONS_BUILD]
[-o:h OPTIONS_HOST] [-o:a OPTIONS_ALL] [-s SETTINGS]
[-s:b SETTINGS_BUILD] [-s:h SETTINGS_HOST]
[-s:a SETTINGS_ALL] [-c CONF] [-c:b CONF_BUILD]
[-c:h CONF_HOST] [-c:a CONF_ALL]
Show aggregated profiles from the passed arguments.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
Select the output format: json
-v [V] Level of detail of the output. Valid options from less
verbose to more verbose: -vquiet, -verror, -vwarning,
-vnotice, -vstatus, -v or -vverbose, -vv or -vdebug,
-vvv or -vtrace
-cc CORE_CONF, --core-conf CORE_CONF
Define core configuration, overwriting global.conf
values. E.g.: -cc core:non_interactive=True
-pr PROFILE, --profile PROFILE
Apply the specified profile. By default, or if
specifying -pr:h (--profile:host), it applies to the
host context. Use -pr:b (--profile:build) to specify
the build context, or -pr:a (--profile:all) to specify
both contexts at once
-pr:b PROFILE_BUILD, --profile:build PROFILE_BUILD
-pr:h PROFILE_HOST, --profile:host PROFILE_HOST
-pr:a PROFILE_ALL, --profile:all PROFILE_ALL
-o OPTIONS, --options OPTIONS
Apply the specified options. By default, or if
specifying -o:h (--options:host), it applies to the
host context. Use -o:b (--options:build) to specify
the build context, or -o:a (--options:all) to specify
both contexts at once. Example: -o pkg:with_qt=true
-o:b OPTIONS_BUILD, --options:build OPTIONS_BUILD
-o:h OPTIONS_HOST, --options:host OPTIONS_HOST
-o:a OPTIONS_ALL, --options:all OPTIONS_ALL
-s SETTINGS, --settings SETTINGS
Apply the specified settings. By default, or if
specifying -s:h (--settings:host), it applies to the
host context. Use -s:b (--settings:build) to specify
the build context, or -s:a (--settings:all) to specify
both contexts at once. Example: -s compiler=gcc
-s:b SETTINGS_BUILD, --settings:build SETTINGS_BUILD
-s:h SETTINGS_HOST, --settings:host SETTINGS_HOST
-s:a SETTINGS_ALL, --settings:all SETTINGS_ALL
-c CONF, --conf CONF Apply the specified conf. By default, or if specifying
-c:h (--conf:host), it applies to the host context.
Use -c:b (--conf:build) to specify the build context,
or -c:a (--conf:all) to specify both contexts at once.
Example: -c tools.cmake.cmaketoolchain:generator=Xcode
-c:b CONF_BUILD, --conf:build CONF_BUILD
-c:h CONF_HOST, --conf:host CONF_HOST
-c:a CONF_ALL, --conf:all CONF_ALL
Use conan profile show to compute the resulting build and host profiles from
the command line arguments. For example, combining different options and settings with the
default profile or with any other profile using the pr:b
or pr:h
arguments:
$ conan profile show -s:h build_type=Debug -o:h shared=False
Host profile:
[settings]
arch=x86_64
build_type=Debug
compiler=apple-clang
compiler.cppstd=gnu17
compiler.libcxx=libc++
compiler.version=14
os=Macos
[options]
shared=False
[conf]
Build profile:
[settings]
arch=x86_64
build_type=Release
compiler=apple-clang
compiler.cppstd=gnu17
compiler.libcxx=libc++
compiler.version=14
os=Macos
[conf]
It’s also useful to show the result of the evaluation of jinja2 templates in the profiles. For example, a profile like this:
[settings]
os = {{ {"Darwin": "Macos"}.get(platform.system(), platform.system()) }}
Check the evaluated profile:
$ conan profile show -pr:h=myprofile
Host profile:
[settings]
os=Macos
[conf]
...
The command can also output a json with the results:
$ conan profile show --format=json
{
"host": {
"settings": {
"arch": "armv8",
"build_type": "Release",
"compiler": "apple-clang",
"compiler.cppstd": "gnu17",
"compiler.libcxx": "libc++",
"compiler.version": "15",
"os": "Macos"
},
"package_settings": {},
"options": {},
"tool_requires": {},
"conf": {},
"build_env": ""
},
"build": {
"settings": {
"arch": "armv8",
"build_type": "Release",
"compiler": "apple-clang",
"compiler.cppstd": "gnu17",
"compiler.libcxx": "libc++",
"compiler.version": "15",
"os": "Macos"
},
"package_settings": {},
"options": {},
"tool_requires": {},
"conf": {},
"build_env": ""
}
}
See also
Read more about profiles