Added support for Conan as a dependency manager #33
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I'm currently working on integrating Conan as a dependency manager in my workflow. While Charon doesn't have a lot of dependencies, it is one of Cura. This script allows Conan to create a package that stores the Python files and adds that path to the PYTHONPATH. The added conanfile.py can be seen as completely separate from your current setup. Meaning that it won't require any changes in how you guys set up your build environment. Although I think that Conan could also be beneficial for you.
This PR is part of the following PRs:
The purpose of these changes is to set up a dependency manager for Cura and here repositories. Cura uses both third-party and Ultimaker maintained dependencies, written in both Python and C++ (or mixtures of both). Not all of these dependencies can be downloaded with the help of a dependency manager such as pip. This makes setting up Cura from source, a pain in the$%^#$ $%^. See the graph below for the current dependencies. Adding to the complexity is the way how we're currently consuming third-party dependencies; Some have to be present on the system/provided by the user, some are shipped within the repo, while others are downloaded by CMake.
All of the above-mentioned PRs and this one, add a
conanfile.py
to the root of this project. This is a recipe written in Python which instructs Conan (https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/) how to build and package the repository in such a way that it can be reused by other dependencies. If a required dependency has no binary for your OS and compiler it will build that dependency from scratch and store it in the cache. Making installing Cura from source as simple as:For a more detailed description see the README.md in this repository https://github.com/jellespijker/conan-um
For testing purposes, I have set up a small home server that can be used by Ultimaker employees. Other developers can test this by cloning the above-mentioned repositories and performing a
conan export . ultimaker/testing
in each root. That only leaves the SIP package, if you execute aconan export . riverbankingcomputing/testing
in this folder https://github.com/jellespijker/conan-um/tree/main/recipes/sip it creates a Conan package for SIP 4.19.25You can use your own profiles for this, but I have personally tested and developed them with my own
jinja
template profiles on Linux Manjaro with a GCC compiler, Mac OS Big Sur with a Clang compiler and Windows 11 with a Visual Studio 2019 compiler.These profiles can be installed with the
conan config install https://github.com/jellespijker/conan-config
. Make sure you add-pr:b cura_release.jinja -pr:h cura_release.jinja
to your install instructionsConan allows for multiple ways of working. Either the exiting package can be used from the cache, or if you want to work on multiple repositories you can put that repo in editable mode such that the xxx-config.cmake in the project that is depending on the other, will point to the paths of your repo, see https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/developing_packages/editable_packages.html
Because the best practice method to use Conan, which is also the preferred way in Conan 2.0, is to use ( https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/conanfile/tools/cmake.html ) With the tools
CMakeDeps
,CMakeToolchain
, andCMake
. TheCMakeDeps
class will generate xxx-config.cmake files per dependency, while theCMakeToolchain
will generate a toolchain to be passed to CMake-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=conan_toolchain.cmake
These two prepare the way forCMake
to actually build the project such that it won't need to change the CMakeLists.txt. Allowing Conan to be optional and not mandatory. Unfortunately, our repositories have organically grown CMakeLists.txt mixing old and modern syntax and a build system that uses CMake 3.13.Still, WIP at the moment, since I'm finalizing some last changes across all repos