Conan Example

C++ Dependency Management

Build

If you've never used conan before, install it with your favorite package manager, and run the following:

$ conan profile new default --detect
$ conan profile update settings.compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11 default

NOTE: If you are using an old compiler, the second command is unnecessary and probably even counter-productive

Run make from the project root:

$ make

Run

The resulting md5 executable will be found in the build/bin directory:

$ ./build/bin/md5

Test

Run the tests:

$ make test

What's up with the compile_commands.json file?

The compile_commands.json file is a symlink to a file with the same name that is generated in the build tree. It is useful to have it in the project root when you are using an editor that utilizes a c++ language server such as clangd to integrate language features into your editor such as auto complete, go to definition, find all references, etc. The compile_commands.json file tells clang how the whole project is built so that it can provide proper auto completion and linting.