Extending Conan

This section provides an introduction to extension capabilities of Conan:

• Customizing settings
  • Adding new settings
  • Adding new sub-settings
  • Add new values
• Python requires
  • Introduction
  • Extending base classes
  • Reusing files
  • PackageID
  • Resolution of python-requires
• Python requires (legacy)
  • Import a python requires
  • Reuse python sources
  • Reuse source files
• Creating a custom build helper for Conan
• Hooks
  • Hook structure
  • Importing from a module
  • Storage, activation and sharing
  • Official Hooks
• Template system
  • HTML output for conan search table
  • Graph output for conan info command
  • Package scaffolding for conan new command