Package apps and devtools

With conan it is possible to package and deploy applications. It is also possible that these applications are also dev-tools, like compilers (e.g. MinGW), or build systems (e.g. CMake).

This section describes how to package and run executables, and also how to package dev-tools. Also, how to apply applications like dev-tools or even libraries (like testing frameworks) to other packages to build them from sources: Tool requirements

• Running and deploying packages
  • Using virtual environments
  • Imports
  • Deployable packages
  • Using the deploy generator
  • Using the json generator
  • Running from packages
  • Runtime packages and re-packaging
• Creating conan packages to install dev tools
  • Using the tool packages in other recipes
  • Using the tool packages in your system
• Tool requirements
  • Declaring tool requirements
  • Build and Host contexts
  • Properties of tool requirements
  • Example: testing framework and build tool
  • Making tool_requires affect the consumers package-ID
  • Testing tool_requires