[question] How to package application with conan installed dependencies together?

[aiyolo]

What is your question?

I want to make a installer for my application that will need some dll files installed by conan.

I known that conan will install dependencies to .conan folder, but how I can I copy the all the dependent *dll file to a customed folder when I run cmake --build --preset release --target install?

Is there a recommended practice?

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• [ ] I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[memsharded]

Hi @aiyolo

Yes, there are some recommended practices:

• deployers can be used as a generic mechanism to extract files from the conan cache and copy them to your local folder so you can create installers from them: https://docs.conan.io/2/reference/extensions/deployers.html#deployers
• You can also create your custom commands that do your own logic, you might even automate the creation of your installer in a Conan custom command: https://docs.conan.io/2/reference/extensions/custom_commands.html
• These are conan commands, no cmake commands. If you want to automate something from the CMake side, you might use https://docs.conan.io/2/reference/tools/cmake/cmaketoolchain.html#conan-runtime-lib-dirs