Build systems

Conan can be integrated with any build system. This can be done with:

• Generators: Conan can write file/s in different formats gathering all the information from the dependency tree, like include directories, library names, library dirs…
• Build Helpers: Conan provides some classes to help calling your build system, translating the settings and options to the arguments, flags or environment variables that your build system expect.

• CMake
  • cmake generator
  • cmake_multi generator
  • cmake_paths generator
  • cmake_find_package generator
  • cmake_find_package_multi
  • Build automation
  • Find Packages
• MSBuild (Visual Studio)
  • With visual_studio generator
  • Build an existing Visual Studio project
  • Toolsets
• Autotools: configure/make
• Ninja, NMake, Borland
• pkg-config and .pc files
  • Approach 1: Import and patch the prefix in the .pc files
  • Approach 2: Prepare and package .pc files before packaging them
  • Approach 3: Use --define-prefix
  • Approach 4: Use PKG_CONFIG_$PACKAGE_$VARIABLE
  • Approach 5: Use the pkg_config generator
• Boost Build
• B2 (Boost Build)
• QMake
  • Example
• Premake
  • Example
• XMake
  • Install third-party packages:
  • Find a conan package
  • Test command for finding package
• Make
  • Example
• qbs
• Meson Build
• SCons
• Compilers on command line