newconan creates default project structure that is convenient for developing in IDEs like Clion and Visual Studio.

Installation

$ pip install newconan

Create Project

$ newconan TestExe                      # create exe project
$ newconan TestSharedLibrary -shared    # create shared library project
$ newconan TestStaticLibrary -static    # create static library project

Project Structure

TestSharedLibrary
├── .git
├── assets
│   └── public
│       └── TestSharedLibrary
├── cmake
│   ├── conan.cmake
│   ├── symlink.cmake
│   └── symlink.py
├── src
│   ├── main.cpp
│   └── main.h
├── test
│   └── test.cpp
├── .clang-format
├── .gitignore
├── .gitlab-ci.yml
├── build.py
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── CMakeSettings.json
├── conanfile.py
└── README.md

• newconan will automatically create the git repository which is .git folder.
• assets folder will contains resource files which will be symlink to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bin/assets. In this way, your binary can use the relative path ./assets to access the resource files.
• cmake folder contains some cmake macros to symlink folder and setup conan.
• src folder contains the main source code for your project.
• test folder contains all the test cpp files.
• .clang-format is the default format that clang-format will use.
• .gitignore ignores everything except exisiting folders and files. You can edit this file to add other folders to git.
• .gitlab-ci.yml is the default ci configuration for gitlab.
• build.py will be used by gitlab-ci to build and upload this project as conan recipe for others to use your library.
• CMakeLists.txt will define a target for your project and link all the necessary libraries against it. CMakeLists.txt also scans test folder and create corresponding a test target for each cpp file.
• CMakeSettings.json is used by Visual Studio. This file will make Visual Studio put the build folder relative to your project rather than some hashed folder which you can’t find easily.
• conanfile.py defines the library dependencies. conan will download and compile all the required libraries and copy *.dll/*.dylib to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bin folder. At the same time, dependent library resource files will also be copied.
• README.md shows how to build this project using cmake and conan.

Add dependency

You can add library dependencies to your project by modifying the requires attribute of conanfile.py:

class ProjectNameConan(ConanFile):
    name = "ProjectName"
    version = "1.0.0"
    settings = "os", "compiler", "build_type", "arch"
    requires = ( # Add dependencies here.
        "library1/1.0.0@conan/stable", 
        "library2/2.0.0@conan/testing",
        ...
    ) 

And then refresh cmake, conan will download and compile all the listed dependencies.