[bug] Generating a Release project requires building in Debug. Can't find library without changing macros. about conan HOT 5 OPEN

Just to add, if you get an abort with an invalid token (if you manage to figure it out or whatnot) when running the .exe, that's normal. Put a try catch around the bot.start() if you would rather not get an abort.

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Another note to add, Conan does generate release versions of all the requirements too.

So it's even more confusing why Debug works here.

If you flip Release for Debug and Debug for Release as you follow the steps, you'll get the same outcome (but ofc flipped so binaries will be in Release).

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Hi @Jaskowicz1

Thanks for your report, I am having a look.

I also have some feedback about the branch and the conanfile.py inside the library-conan, where should I report it?

Quick feedback about:

Re-run cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="conan_toolchain.cmake" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

VS is a multi-config generator, and as such CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE shouldn't be neither defined nor used. This might be related to the issue, I am building the project, but if you can try to drop it and try again to see if it helps, that would be great too.

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Thank you for taking a look, @memsharded !

I also have some feedback about the branch and the conanfile.py inside the library-conan, where should I report it?

https://github.com/brainboxdotcc/DPP/pull/1066 would be the best place! That way the feedback is directly on the PR!

VS is a multi-config generator, and as such CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE shouldn't be neither defined nor used. This might be related to the issue, I am building the project, but if you can try to drop it and try again to see if it helps, that would be great too.

I'll certainly give another run without to see what happens!

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Some issues that I am seeing:

• The package is storing headers in the dpp-10.0 folder:

 Installing: C:/Users/..../.conan2/p/b/dpp2166487df2998/p/include/dpp-10.0/dpp/timer.h
-- Installing: C:/Users/.../.conan2/p/b/dpp2166487df2998/p/include/dpp-10.0/dpp/unicode_emoji.h

But the recipe is using the default package_info() which defaults to include folder.
The recipe should do something like:

def package_info(self):
     self.cpp_info.includedirs = ["include/dpp-10.0"]

Likewise:

-- Installing: C:/Users/.../.conan2/p/b/dpp2166487df2998/p/lib/dpp-10.0/dpp.lib

So something like:

def package_info(self):
     self.cpp_info.includedirs = ["include/dpp-10.0"]
     self.cpp_info.libdirs= ["lib/dpp-10.0"]

I'd suggest to have a look to https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/creating_packages/define_package_information.html

Also, Conan has a built-in functionality, the test_package that automatically runs this check without having to have another separate project to test that it has been correctly packaged. Please check https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/creating_packages/test_conan_packages.html. You can start from the conan new cmake_lib -d name=mypkg -d version=0.1 to have a fully working package and test_package.

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