[question] Visual Studio solution missing headers, but `conan build` works just fine about conan HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @LouChiSoft

Thanks for your question.

I think you are missing some information:

cmake --build ./build

This is not complete for Visual Studio (multi-config generator, that doesn't necessarily default to Release), you need either:

cmake --build ./build --config Release
# or
cmake --build --preset conan-release

The later is preferred if you were using presets for the configure step.

For the msbuild command line version cd build; MSBuild.exe gamma.sln you might need to add /p:Configuration=Release too there. But I also think that if you configured the project with cmake, then using cmake --build is also preferred.

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Thanks for the fast response @memsharded. This was the answer, I guess the missing files in Visual Studio is a CMake specific issue then, not a conan one.
Thanks

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Thanks for the fast response @memsharded. This was the answer, I guess the missing files in Visual Studio is a CMake specific issue then, not a conan one.

It is kind of alignment in all the tools, conan install install by default Release dependencies for the Release configuration. But even CMake strongly encourage to use a build_type or configuration, it is not really mandatory, so it still kind of works even if it is not specified, but then it fails to find the dependencies because they were installed for Release

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