Multiple MSBuild Configurations

[fellinga]

Hello!

We are working with an old MSBuild project and we want to package all the dependencies (internal and external) of the main project into conan packages and this works well for Release and Debug so far. The main project also has multiple MSBuild configurations like "Fake_Release", which is basically a release configuration but its used in automated tests to mock specific function calls.

The problem is that we can't export-pkgs with "Fake_Release" so that the MSBuildDeps would generate import conditions accordingly. Since "Fake_Release" is basically a release build and therfore relies on the same files, are there any options to generate import conditions that match multiple custom configurations?

I think we would need something like this:
<Import Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Fake_Release' And '$(Platform)' == 'Win32'" Project="conan_dep_release_x64.props"/>
<Import Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Custom_Release2' And '$(Platform)' == 'Win32'" Project="conan_dep_release_x64.props"/>

[memsharded]

Hi @fellinga

Thanks for your question.
I am assuming you are using Conan 2.0.

The MSBuildToolchain contains a .configuration field that can be used for this:

            def generate(self):
                tc = MSBuildToolchain(self)
                gen = MSBuildDeps(self)
                shared_option = self.dependencies["hello"].options.get_safe("shared")
                if shared_option and self.settings.build_type == "Release":
                    tc.configuration = "Release - Shared"
                    gen.configuration = "Release - Shared"

                tc.generate()
                gen.generate()

It seems we didn't document it yet in 2.0, but please give it a try and let us know, and I can move this ticket to the docs repo for a fix.

(The other alternative is to add a FakeRelease build_type settings in settings.yml, but probably is not what you need here)

[fellinga]

Yes, we are using 2.0.
Your suggested " gen.configuration" worked great! Thanks

[memsharded]

Re-opening and moving to docs repo for documentation.