Resolve "EXTERN: Adapt to Conan 2"

Summary

Updating from Conan 1 to Conan 2.5 required several changes, both on the conanfile.py as well as the CMakeLists.txt file(s).

Related to

• #73 (closed)
• #80 (closed)
• #82 (closed)
• #83 (closed)

Related MR for integration tests: caosdb-cppinttest!35 (merged)

Focus

The biggest changes are in conanfile.py and CMakeLists.txt all according to the migration guide. Crucial here are

• Conan now doesn't appear in the CMakeLists.txt files anymore. Instead, Conan generates CMakeToolChain files, which handle all the necessary includes etc. The toolchain files are passed to CMake as arguments.
• Packages are included in our CMakeLists.txt using CMake's FindPackage
• Conan 2.0 builds into build/<build_type>, i.e. build/Release or build/Debug

Test Environment

How to set up a test environment for manual testing?

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.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ test:
   tags: [ docker ]
   stage: test
   script:
-    - mkdir build
-    - cd build
-    - VERSION="$(conan inspect --raw version ..)"
-    - conan install -s "compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11" --build=missing -o build_acm=True .. "caosdb/$VERSION@_/_"
-    - cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
+    # - mkdir build
+    # - cd build
+    # - VERSION="$(conan inspect --raw version ..)"
+    - conan install -s "compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11" --build=missing -o build_acm=True . #.. "caosdb/$VERSION@_/_"
+    - conan build -s "compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11" . --s build_type=Debug
+    - cd build/Debug
     - cmake --build . -j
     - cmake --build . -j --target unit_test_coverage
     - cmake --build . -j --target cxxcaosdbcli