The Conan Extension for Visual Studio automates the use of Conan, the C/C++ package manager, into your Visual Studio projects. This extension is currently under development, but it already offers the most common functionalities for a C++ project workflow. ConanConan is an open source package manager, with MIT license, focused in C and C++ programming languages. It simplifies the process of integrating and reusing C and C++ libraries from sources and from binaries too, giving your team the ability to boost your development speed. Conan is a decentralized package manager with a client-server architecture. This means that clients can fetch packages from, as well as upload packages to, different servers/remotes, in a very similar way to the Git push/pull model. Visit the documentation to get a complete overview of all the features and how to use Conan at all its power. Conan Extension for Visual StudioThis extension is able to detect a Getting started with a basic project should be quite straightforward. Once the extension is installed check the options of the Conan Extension to be sure that the path to the Conan executable is available (install Conan). Then you can use the menu to trigger Conan or it will fire automatically when a change is detected. The next image shows a typical layout of Visual Studio with the extension working:
There is a lot of work ahead, we expect to keep adding functionalities to this plugin; and, if you come across any issue or you just want to provide feedback, please write in our repository. RequirementsVisual Studio 2017 and above |