Overview

A Conan utility to help, and adapt, Conan building to run B2 as needed.

How To Use

Using this utility is simple using the python_requires Conan facility.

from conans import ConanFile, tools

required_conan_version = ">=1.44.0"


class Package(ConanFile):
    name = "my_package"
    tool_requires = ("b2/[>=4.7.0]@")
    python_requires = ("b2-conan/1.0.0@bfgroup/b2-conan")
    source_subfolder = "source_subfolder"

    def build(self):
        b2 = self.python_requires["b2-conan"].module.B2(self)
        sources = os.path.join(self.source_folder, self.source_subfolder)
        with tools.chdir(sources):
            b2.build()

That, when used in your own package that is based on B2 will run B2 with the options needed to match the Conan build variation.

The B2.build takes a couple of arguments to further control what gets built and how:

def build(self, args=None, build_dir=None, target=None)

• args (Optional, Defaulted to None) Extra arguments to invoke B2 with.

• build_dir (Optional, Defaulted to None) The intermediate output build directory.

• target (Optional, Defaulted to None) A set of one or more targets to build. These are added to the command line invocation directly. And must use the B2 target syntax.