Possible documentation issue in generate regarding dynamic linked libraries

[Einsied]

Good day people,

I attempted to include Qt6 in one of my recent projects and failed to correctly copy the ".dll"-files.

I used the the documentation in: https://github.com/conan-io/docs/blob/dd487c60318b6a7d6557829081819d027ecea903/reference/conanfile/methods/generate.rst?plain=1#L103 Which suggested, that the files should be sourced from the "lib" directory by using dep.cpp_info.libdir.

It took me a while to figure out that dep.cpp_info.bindir exists. (Thanks to https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/13660 and the reporter there)

In my experience the shared libaries usually end up in the bianry-directory, so the line in the documentation looks unusally to me. It would be helpful to change it or ammend a comment elaborating that dep.cpp_info.bindir exists to save less experienced users like me some time.

Cheers and please fix Einsied

[memsharded]

Hi @Einsied

Thanks for your feedback.

This looks indeed a mistake in the docs, the dlls in Windows are in the "bindir". Let me submit a fix for this.

[memsharded]

Doing https://github.com/conan-io/docs/pull/3828, it will close this ticket, will be in next 2.8 docs, thanks again!