how to use conan in cpp

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Introduce

simply introduce for conan in cpp.

testPorject link

Install Conan-server and start

the official link

if need private packages for team or company can do this .

pip install conan-server

Configuration

default server configuration is ~/.conan_server/server.conf

give write permissions

line:62 remove the “#”

let

[write_permissions]

*/*@*/*: *

change the user name

the default user is demo, so need change it to others

[users] demo:demo

Install client

the official link

you need

python>=3.6
pip / pip3

pip3 install conan

Set the Profile before everything

this will affect “~/.conan2/profiles/default”

conan profile detect --force

set cppstd=20

open the file change

in windows

compiler.cppstd=20

in linux

compiler.cppstd=gnu20

Create “mypkg” package

mkdir mypkg && cd mypkg

conan new cmake_lib -d name=mypkg -d version=1.0

conan create . -s build_type=Debug

conan create . -s build_type=Release

upload “mypkg” package to conan-server

check if already add local conan-server

conan remote list

if no:

//conan remote add “" ""

conan remote add my_local_server http://localhost:9300

conan search "mypkg" -r=my_local_server

will be failed “ERROR: Recipe ‘mypkg’ not found”

conan upload mypkg/1.0 -r=my_local_server

search again

conan search "mypkg" -r=my_local_server

sucess.

clean local Cache

remove local cache

conan remove "mypkg" --confirm

search package

conan search "mypkg"


Found 1 pkg/version recipes matching mypkg in my_local_server
conancenter
  ERROR: Recipe 'mypkg' not found
my_local_server
  mypkg
    mypkg/1.0

use “mypkg” from local “Conan-server”

create app

conan new cmake_exe -d name=testApp -d version=1.0

goto the code folder

install the library

–build_type=Debug for debug and release
–output-folder=build the output folder is “build”
–build=missing if there don’t have the library from conanserver then can build

    conan install . --output-folder=build --build=missing -s build_type=Debug

    conan install . --output-folder=build --build=missing -s build_type=Release

if in windows

    cmake --preset conan-default

if in linux

    cmake --preset conan-release
    cmake --preset conan-debug

compile it for debug and release

cmake --build --preset="conan-release"

cmake --build --preset="conan-debug"

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