A Threesome to Understand Conan Package Management System

Three actors:

• Conan Artifactory Server: The middleman that stores all the built libraries in the cloud. (conan_server)
• Library Builder: The one who builds the library and push it to the artifactory. (library_builder)
• Application Builder: The consumer who likes use conan as dependency management. (application_builder)

Run Scenerio

1. Start conan_server by docker compose run conan_server
2. Build and publish the library using docker compose run library_builder
3. Build the application that requires the library built in previous step with docker compose run application_builder
4. Run the application in your Linux host-machine or by using docker compose run application_runnner

Build from Source and Build using Generated

If you want to build the library before linking it to application set BUILD_FROM_SOURCE environment variable to 1, if you want to directly use the compiled files from artifactory use 0.