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Conan provides different tools to help manage your projects using Autotools. They can be imported from conan.tools.gnu. The most relevant tools are:

  • AutotoolsDeps: the dependencies generator for Autotools, which generates shell scripts containing environment variable definitions that the Autotools build system can understand.

  • AutotoolsToolchain: the toolchain generator for Autotools, which generates shell scripts containing environment variable definitions that the Autotools build system can understand.

  • Autotools build helper, a wrapper around the command line invocation of autotools that abstracts calls like ./configure or make into Python method calls.

  • PkgConfigDeps: the dependencies generator for pkg-config which generates pkg-config files for all the required dependencies of a package.

For the full list of tools under conan.tools.gnu please check the reference section.

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