Creating Packages

This section shows how to create, build and test your packages.

• Getting Started
  • Creating the Package Recipe
  • The test_package Folder
  • Creating and Testing Packages
  • Settings vs. Options
• Recipe and Sources in a Different Repo
• Recipe and Sources in the Same Repo
  • Exporting the Sources with the Recipe: exports_sources
  • Capturing the Remote and Commit: scm
• Packaging Existing Binaries
  • Packaging Pre-built Binaries
  • Downloading and Packaging Pre-built Binaries
• Understanding Packaging
  • Creating and Testing Packages Manually
  • Package Creation Process
• Defining Package ABI Compatibility
  • Defining a Custom package_id()
  • Compatible packages
  • Compatible Compilers
  • Dependency Issues
  • Using package_id() for Package Dependencies
• Define the package information
  • Using Components
• Toolchains
  • Built-in toolchains
• Inspecting Packages
• Packaging Approaches
  • 1 config (1 build) -> 1 package
  • N configs -> 1 package
  • N configs (1 build) -> N packages
• Package Creator Tools