Howtos

This section shows common solutions and different approaches to typical problems.

• How to package header-only libraries
  • Without unit tests
  • With unit tests
• How to launch conan install from cmake
• How to create and reuse packages based on Visual Studio
  • Creating packages
  • Uploading binaries
  • Reusing packages
  • Other configurations
• Creating and reusing packages based on Makefiles
  • Creating packages
  • Using packages
• How to manage the GCC >= 5 ABI
• Using Visual Studio 2017 - CMake integration
  • Using cmake-conan
  • Using tasks with tasks.vs.json
• How to manage C++ standard
  • Build helpers
  • Package compatibility
• How to use docker to create and cross build C and C++ conan packages
  • Using conan inside a container
  • Sharing a local folder with a docker container
  • Using the images to cross-build packages
  • Available docker images
• How to reuse Python code in recipes
  • A basic Python package
  • Reusing python code in your recipes
• How to create and share a custom generator with generator packages
  • Creating a custom generator
  • Premake generator example
  • Using the generator
• How to manage shared libraries
  • Manage Shared Libraries with Environment Variables
  • Manage RPATHs
• How to reuse cmake install for package() method
• How to collaborate on other users’ packages
  • Collaborate from source repository
  • Copy a package
• How to link with Apple Frameworks
• How to package Apple Frameworks
• How to collect licenses of dependencies
• How to capture package version from SCM: git
• How to capture package version from text or build files
• How to use Conan as other language package manager
  • Conan: A Go package manager
  • Conan: A Python package manager
• How to manage SSL (TLS) certificates
  • Server certificate validation
  • Client certificates
• How to check the version of the Conan client inside a conanfile
• Use a generic CI with Conan and Artifactory
  • Uploading the BuildInfo