Conan: multiple generator usage from client perspective

[Milerius]

Hello i have a repository that support 3 build systems: bake,CMake, and Meson

I want to use conan for package management:

[requires]
sfml/2.5.1@bincrafters/stable
entt/3.x.y-WIP@skypjack/stable
asio/1.13.0@bincrafters/stable
jsonformoderncpp/3.6.1@vthiery/stable

[generators]
cmake ##! I would like here to specify for example : "cmake, meson, pkgtools"

And choose with command line which generator use for example

##! CMake 
mkdir build
cd build
conan install ../
conan build --generator="cmake"

##! Meson
conan build --generator="meson" "build_directory"  

For the moment i don't figure out how to manage multiple generators etc

repository: https://github.com/Milerius/nephtys

Thank's a lot for your help

[Johnnyxy]

You can specify multiple generators.

[generators]
cmake
pkg_config

Normally each generator creates a file for its usage that does not interfere with other generator's files.
So you can specify them, install the dependencies with conan install and use the build system of your choice afterwards.

As an alternative you could specify no generators at all in the conanfile and set the generator to use as argument on the command line of conan install.

conan install -g cmake ...

[Milerius]

ok i got it, thank's a lot, is not obvious according to the doc