Creating the conanfile.py script

The most important file required for all Conan packages is conanfile.py. In our case, we'll want to fill in some of its details using CMake variables, so let's create a conanfile.py.in file instead. We'll use it to create the former file by adding the following to our CMakeLists.txt files:

configure_file(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/conan/conanfile.py.in
                ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/conan/conanfile.py @ONLY)

Our file will begin with some boring Python imports, such as those required by Conan for CMake projects:

 import os
 from conans import ConanFile, CMake

Now we need to create a class that defines our package:

class CustomerConan(ConanFile):
     name = "customer"
     version = "@PROJECT_VERSION@"
     license = "MIT"
     author = "Authors"
     description = "Library and app for the Customer microservice"
     topics = ("Customer", "domifair")

First, we start with...