[question] PUBLIC compile definition not propagated about conan HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @Drllap

Thanks for your question.

Whatever a package build scripts have is completely internal to the package. It doesn't even matter if a package is built with CMake, Meson, Autotools or other build system.

What defines what information needs to be propagated to the consumers of a package is the package_info() method.
Please check:

• https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/creating_packages/create_your_first_package.html (the package_info() part)
• https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/creating_packages/define_package_information.html

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@memsharded Thanks
Adding

    def package_info(self):
        self.cpp_info.libs = ["cpt"]
        self.cpp_info.defines = ["SOME_COMPILE_DEFINITION"]

Works

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I just pushed an example repo here: https://github.com/Drllap/conan-compile-definition-propagation-test

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