I'm considering to start using Conan package manager for managing third party dependencies of my C++ projects, but I cannot find how to link only to some of the libraries in Conan package. I'm using CMake as build system and I'm using Conan multi config CMake generator: cmake_multi.
Following the example in the documentation I have this code:
project(FoundationTimer)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
set(TARGET_NAME timer)
include(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conanbuildinfo_multi.cmake)
conan_basic_setup(TARGETS)
add_executable(${TARGET_NAME} timer.cpp)
target_link_libraries(${TARGET_NAME} CONAN_PKG::Poco)
in my CMakeLists.txt
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After generating solution with CMake:
conan install -g cmake_multi -s build_type=Debug -s compiler.runtime=MDd ..\mytimer\
conan install -g cmake_multi -s build_type=Release -s compiler.runtime=MD ..\mytimer\
cmake ..\mytimer\ -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"
this generates dependencies to all libraries in the Conan package and to all libraries in other Conan packages to which Poco Conan package depends like OpenSSL and zlib.
Additional dependencies in Visual Studio project options for debug configuration is set to:
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoUtilmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoMongoDBmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoNetmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoNetSSLWinmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoCryptomdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoDatamdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoDataSQLitemdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoZipmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoXMLmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoJSONmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\Poco\1.7.8p3\pocoproject\stable\package\67348df82fcd362bbf088991f95bb229be582635\lib\PocoFoundationmdd.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\OpenSSL\1.0.2l\conan\stable\package\b17b520b4b55729a7391c6b2d20631fec4cf1564\lib\ssleay32.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\OpenSSL\1.0.2l\conan\stable\package\b17b520b4b55729a7391c6b2d20631fec4cf1564\lib\libeay32.lib
C:\Users\ivan.bobev\.conan\data\zlib\1.2.11\conan\stable\package\c32596dcd26b8c708dc3d19cb73738d2b48f12a8\lib\zlibd.lib
Is it possible to link only to specific libraries in Poco package?
I tried explicitly to list only the libraries to which I want to link the following way:
target_link_libraries(${TARGET_NAME}
debug PocoFoundationmdd optimized PocoFoundationmd
debug PocoUtilmdd optimized PocoUtilmd)
But after this the path to the lib files is not set properly, nor include directories for Poco package.
I'm using latest Conan version 0.25.1.