[question] Is there a way to define information in a recipe that can be used in CMake (or other build systems potentially) about conan HOT 2 OPEN

Hi @rconde01

If I understood correctly, you have a Python script in one of your dependencies, and you want to run that script from the CMakeLists.txt of a consumer of that dependency, that has a requires() or tool_requires to it?

Would the explicit way be good for your use case? Something like:

requires = "mydep/0.1"

def  generate(self):
    tc = CMakeToolchain(self)
    tc.variables["PATH_TO_MY_PYTHON_SCRIPT"] = os.path.join(self.dependencies["mydep"].cpp_info.bindir, "myscript.py")
    tc.generate()

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I did a slight variation which was:

class my_tool(ConanFile):
   def package_info(self):
      self.cpp_info.set_property(my_tool_py", join(self.package_folder, "bin", "my_tool.py"))

def generate(self):
   tc= CMakeToolchain(self)
   tc.variables["MY_TOOL_PATH"] = self.dependencies["my_tool"].cpp_info.get_property("my_tool_py")
   tc.generate()

which works well - except on windows the path ends up in the variable with unescaped backslashes. I can manually fix that up but maybe CMakeToolchain should be doing that?

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