json

Warning

This is a deprecated feature. Please refer to the Migration Guidelines to find the feature that replaced this one.

Warning

Actual JSON may have more fields not documented here. Those fields may change in the future without previous warning.

A file named conanbuildinfo.json will be generated. It will contain the information about every dependency and the installed settings and options:

{
  "deps_env_info": {
    "MY_ENV_VAR": "foo"
  },
  "deps_user_info": {
    "hello": {
      "my_var": "my_value"
    }
  },
  "dependencies":
  [
    {
      "name": "fmt",
      "version": "4.1.0",
      "include_paths": [
        "/path/to/.conan/data/fmt/4.1.0/<user>/<channel>/package/<id>/include"
      ],
      "lib_paths": [
        "/path/to/.conan/data/fmt/4.1.0/<user>/<channel>/package/<id>/lib"
      ],
      "libs": [
        "fmt"
      ],
      "...": "...",
    },
    {
      "name": "poco",
      "version": "1.9.4",
      "...": "..."
    }
  ],
  "settings": {
    "os": "Linux",
    "arch": "armv7"
  },
  "options": {
    "curl": {
      "shared": true,
    }
  }
}

The generated conanbuildinfo.json file is a JSON file with the following keys:

dependencies

The dependencies is a list, with each item belonging to one dependency, and each one with the following keys:

• name

• version

• description

• rootpath

• sysroot

• include_paths, lib_paths, bin_paths, build_paths, res_paths, framework_paths

• libs, frameworks, system_libs

• defines, cflags, cppflags, sharedlinkflags, exelinkflags

• build_modules, build_modules_paths

• configs (only for multi config dependencies, see below)

Please note that the dependencies are ordered, it isn’t a map, order is relevant. Upstream dependencies, i.e. the ones that do not depend on other packages, will be first, and their direct dependencies after them, and so on.

The node configs will appear only for multi config recipes, it is holding a dictionary with the data related to each configuration:

{
"...": "...",
"dependencies": [
    {
        "name": "hello",
        "rootpath": "/private/var/folders/yq/14hmvxm96xd7gfgl37_tnrbh0000gn/T/tmpkp9l_dovconans/path with spaces/.conan/data/hello/0.1/lasote/testing/package/46f53f156846659bf39ad6675fa0ee8156e859fe",
        "...": "...",
        "configs": {
            "debug": {
                "libs": ["hello_d"]
            },
            "release": {
                "libs": ["hello"]
            }
        }
    },
    {
        "...": "..."
    }
    ]
}

deps_env_info

The environment variables defined by upstream dependencies.

deps_user_info

The user variables defined by upstream dependencies.

settings

The settings used during conan install.

options

The options of each dependency.