Howto install log4cxx with conan?

I am starting to experiment with conan. I found this GitHub repository but I am not sure what to do with it.

I would like to install log4cxx via conan install.

Solution

That github repository belongs to an pre conan 1.0 recipe. There are some repositories for packages and binaries you can directly install with conan install:

Conan-center: https://bintray.com/conan/conan-center
Bincrafters: https://bintray.com/bincrafters/public-conan

None of them have right now log4cxx. If you need that dependency, the best would be trying to update it to conan 1.0, collaborating with the original author, or with the bincrafters community in https://github.com/bincrafters.

The process to try if the recipe works is:

git clone & cd repo
conan create . user/channel

That will fire the local creation of the package. In the case of that log4cxx repo, it is failing in my case, because of the self.run("sudo apt-get install --yes libapr1-dev libapr1 libaprutil1-dev libaprutil1"), as I am running in Windows. The recipe seems to be prepared only for Linux/Apt. There are now a dedicated recipe method system_requirements() that should contain the installation of system level packages, instead of the build() method.