Welcome to conan

Conan is a portable package manager, intended for C and C++ developers, but it is able to manage builds from source, dependencies, and precompiled binaries for any language.

For more information, check conan.io.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Open Source
  • Decentralized package manager
  • Binary management
  • Cross platform, build system agnostic
  • Stable
• Install
  • Install with pip (recommended)
  • Install from brew (OSX)
  • Install from AUR (Arch Linux)
  • Install the binaries
  • Initial configuration
  • Install from source
  • Update
  • Python 2 Deprecation Notice
• Getting Started
  • An MD5 Encrypter using the Poco Libraries
  • Installing Dependencies
  • Inspecting Dependencies
  • Searching Packages
  • Building with Other Configurations
• Using packages
  • Installing dependencies
  • Using profiles
  • Workflows
• Creating Packages
  • Getting Started
  • Recipe and Sources in a Different Repo
  • Recipe and Sources in the Same Repo
  • Packaging Existing Binaries
  • Understanding Packaging
  • Defining Package ABI Compatibility
  • Inspecting Packages
  • Packaging Approaches
  • Package Creator Tools
• Uploading Packages
  • Remotes
  • Uploading Packages to Remotes
  • Using Bintray
  • Artifactory Community Edition for C/C++
  • Running conan_server
• Developing packages
  • Package development flow
  • Packages in editable mode
  • Workspaces
• Package apps and devtools
  • Running and deploying packages
  • Creating conan packages to install dev tools
  • Build requirements
• Mastering Conan
  • Use conanfile.py for consumers
  • Conditional settings, options and requirements
  • Version ranges
  • Build policies
  • Environment variables
  • Virtual Environments
  • Logging
  • Sharing the settings and other configuration
  • Conan local cache: concurrency, Continuous Integration, isolation
  • Package Revisions
• Systems and cross building
  • Cross-building
  • Windows Subsystems
• Extending Conan
  • Python requires: reusing python code in recipes [EXPERIMENTAL]
  • Hooks
• Integrations
  • CMake
  • Autotools: configure/make
  • Visual Studio
  • Apple/Xcode
  • Compilers on command line
  • Android Studio
  • CLion
  • Ninja, NMake, Borland
  • pkg-config and .pc files
  • Boost Build
  • B2 (Boost Build)
  • QMake
  • Premake
  • Make
  • qbs
  • Meson Build
  • SCons
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Travis CI
  • Appveyor
  • Gitlab
  • Circle CI
  • YouCompleteMe (vim)
  • Custom integrations
  • Linting conanfile.py
  • Microsoft’s Azure DevOps (TFS, VSTS)
• Howtos
  • How to package header-only libraries
  • How to launch conan install from cmake
  • How to create and reuse packages based on Visual Studio
  • Creating and reusing packages based on Makefiles
  • How to manage the GCC >= 5 ABI
  • Using Visual Studio 2017 - CMake integration
  • How to manage C++ standard [EXPERIMENTAL]
  • How to use Docker to create and cross-build C and C++ Conan packages
  • How to reuse Python code in recipes
  • How to create and share a custom generator with generator packages
  • How to manage shared libraries
  • How to reuse cmake install for package() method
  • How to collaborate with other users’ packages
  • How to link with Apple Frameworks
  • How to package Apple Frameworks
  • How to collect licenses of dependencies
  • How to extract licenses from headers
  • How to capture package version from SCM: git
  • How to capture package version from SCM: svn
  • How to capture package version from text or build files
  • How to use Conan as other language package manager
  • How to manage SSL (TLS) certificates
  • How to check the version of the Conan client inside a conanfile
  • Use a generic CI with Conan and Artifactory
• Reference
  • Commands
  • conanfile.txt
  • conanfile.py
  • Generators
  • Profiles
  • Build helpers
  • Tools
  • Configuration files
  • Environment variables
  • Hooks [EXPERIMENTAL]
• Videos and links
• FAQ
  • Upgrading to Conan 1.0
  • General
  • Using Conan
  • Troubleshooting
• Changelog
  • 1.14.5 (30-Apr-2019)
  • 1.14.4 (25-Apr-2019)
  • 1.14.3 (11-Apr-2019)
  • 1.14.2 (11-Apr-2019)
  • 1.14.1 (1-Apr-2019)
  • 1.14.0 (28-Mar-2019)
  • 1.13.3 (27-Mar-2019)
  • 1.13.2 (21-Mar-2019)
  • 1.13.1 (15-Mar-2019)
  • 1.13.0 (07-Mar-2019)
  • 1.12.3 (18-Feb-2019)
  • 1.12.2 (8-Feb-2019)
  • 1.12.1 (5-Feb-2019)
  • 1.12.0 (30-Jan-2019)
  • 1.11.2 (8-Jan-2019)
  • 1.11.1 (20-Dec-2018)
  • 1.11.0 (19-Dec-2018)
  • 1.10.2 (17-Dec-2018)
  • 1.10.1 (11-Dec-2018)
  • 1.10.0 (4-Dec-2018)
  • 1.9.2 (20-Nov-2018)
  • 1.9.1 (08-Nov-2018)
  • 1.9.0 (30-October-2018)
  • 1.8.4 (19-October-2018)
  • 1.8.3 (17-October-2018)
  • 1.8.2 (10-October-2018)
  • 1.8.1 (10-October-2018)
  • 1.8.0 (9-October-2018)
  • 1.7.4 (18-September-2018)
  • 1.7.3 (6-September-2018)
  • 1.7.2 (4-September-2018)
  • 1.7.1 (31-August-2018)
  • 1.7.0 (29-August-2018)
  • 1.6.1 (27-July-2018)
  • 1.6.0 (19-July-2018)
  • 1.5.2 (5-July-2018)
  • 1.5.1 (29-June-2018)
  • 1.5.0 (27-June-2018)
  • 1.4.5 (22-June-2018)
  • 1.4.4 (11-June-2018)
  • 1.4.3 (6-June-2018)
  • 1.4.2 (4-June-2018)
  • 1.4.1 (31-May-2018)
  • 1.4.0 (30-May-2018)
  • 1.3.3 (10-May-2018)
  • 1.3.2 (7-May-2018)
  • 1.3.1 (3-May-2018)
  • 1.3.0 (30-April-2018)
  • 1.2.3 (10-Apr-2017)
  • 1.2.1 (3-Apr-2018)
  • 1.2.0 (28-Mar-2018)
  • 1.1.1 (5-Mar-2018)
  • 1.1.0 (27-Feb-2018)
  • 1.0.4 (30-January-2018)
  • 1.0.3 (22-January-2018)
  • 1.0.2 (16-January-2018)
  • 1.0.1 (12-January-2018)
  • 1.0.0 (10-January-2018)
  • 1.0.0-beta5 (8-January-2018)
  • 1.0.0-beta4 (4-January-2018)
  • 1.0.0-beta3 (28-December-2017)
  • 1.0.0-beta2 (23-December-2017)
  • 0.30.3 (15-December-2017)
  • 0.30.2 (14-December-2017)
  • 0.30.1 (12-December-2017)
  • 0.29.2 (2-December-2017)
  • 0.29.1 (23-November-2017)
  • 0.29.0 (21-November-2017)
  • 0.28.1 (31-October-2017)
  • 0.28.0 (26-October-2017)
  • 0.27.0 (20-September-2017)
  • 0.26.1 (05-September-2017)
  • 0.26.0 (31-August-2017)
  • 0.25.1 (20-July-2017)
  • 0.25.0 (19-July-2017)
  • 0.24.0 (15-June-2017)
  • 0.23.1 (05-June-2017)
  • 0.23.0 (01-June-2017)
  • 0.22.3 (03-May-2017)
  • 0.22.2 (20-April-2017)
  • 0.22.1 (18-April-2017)
  • 0.22.0 (18-April-2017)
  • 0.21.2 (04-April-2017)
  • 0.21.1 (23-March-2017)
  • 0.21.0 (21-March-2017)
  • 0.20.3 (06-March-2017)
  • 0.20.2 (02-March-2017)
  • 0.20.1 (01-March-2017)
  • 0.20.0 (27-February-2017)
  • 0.19.3 (27-February-2017)
  • 0.19.2 (15-February-2017)
  • 0.19.1 (02-February-2017)
  • 0.19.0 (31-January-2017)
  • 0.18.1 (11-January-2017)
  • 0.18.0 (3-January-2017)
  • 0.17.2 (21-December-2016)
  • 0.17.1 (15-December-2016)
  • 0.17.0 (13-December-2016)
  • 0.16.1 (05-December-2016)
  • 0.16.0 (19-November-2016)
  • 0.15.0 (08-November-2016)
  • 0.14.1 (20-October-2016)
  • 0.14.0 (20-October-2016)
  • 0.13.3 (13-October-2016)
  • 0.13.0 (03-October-2016)
  • 0.12.0 (13-September-2016)
  • 0.11.1 (31-August-2016)
  • 0.11.0 (3-August-2016)
  • 0.10.0 (29-June-2016)
  • 0.9.2 (11-May-2016)
  • 0.9 (3-May-2016)
  • 0.8.4 (28-Mar-2016)
  • 0.8 (15-Mar-2016)
  • 0.7 (5-Feb-2016)
  • 0.6 (11-Jan-2016)
  • 0.5 (18-Dec-2015)