Conan package manager library integration with scons

This project is an example on how libraries built via the conan package manager with the cmake build-system could be integrated into a C++ program built using the scons build-system. It is part of a blog post of mine explaining how to use the scons build-system either manually with cmake built libraries and package managers such as vcpkg and conan.

• Conan
• Python
• SCons
• CMake
• C++ compiler

1. Create a conan profile (Conan tries to guess a build configuration)

conan profile detect --force

This will give out something like this depending on your system:

detect_api: Found apple-clang 16.0
detect_api: apple-clang>=13, using the major as version

Detected profile:
[settings]
arch=armv8
build_type=Release
compiler=apple-clang
compiler.cppstd=gnu17
compiler.libcxx=libc++
compiler.version=16
os=Macos

2. In the root directory, install the libraries specified by the conanfile.py file (here the fmt library). The --build argument specifies that only the packages whose binaries are not found will be built from source by Conan.

conan install . --output-folder=build --build=missing

2. Call scons to compile the program into the executable helloworld

scons

3. Run program (This may differ slightly on Windows)

./helloworld