How do I test and package a C++ header only library?

Question

To start, I am frustrated and have tried many, many things. This is with regards to the following repo: https://gitlab.com/anadon/prime_generator_header . As it stands, I have ~6 different terminals (cmd, v1 Powershell, v7 Powershell, the cmd that nodejs installs and only works on it, developer cmd, developer v1 powershell), chocoloatey installed, VS Code, Visual Studio 2022 CE with Desktop C++ tooling and basically all other tooling that looks C++ related, meson, ninja, doctest via vcpkg, vkpkg, everything from https://github.com/aminya/setup-cpp, over a base Windows 10 install, a refreshed Windows 10 install, Windows 10 over the 2019 and 2022 major subversions, windows 11, and just more. I left off with doctest definitely installed and available but meson can't find it via cmake and pkg-config and pkgconf don't seem to be available.

All I want to do, which I can just do on Linux and MacOS is the following series of commands:

   cd $PROJECT_ROOT  
   meson setup build  
   meson test -C build  
   ninja coverage -C build  
   meson install -C build  

all wrapped up into a nice install script like vcpkg, conan, chocolatey, apt, nix, etc. How do I do this? Making the transition from any other OS to then work on Windows has been hell.

Answer 1

Hello,
you could ask here: conan-community
Regards, Guido