Cleanly using conan packages in meson

[wbehrens-on-gh]

I'm trying to setup a system for cleanly using conan packages in meson(I would use wrapDB but the packages I need aren't in there yet) I added the conan install as a run_command and now I need a way to use the install .pc files in meson. I installed them to meson.build_root() and I though just changing the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to that would work but it seems it didn't. Does anyone have and insight on the cleanest way to do this?

[eli-schwartz]

I though just changing the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to that would work but it seems it didn't.

It would, but you didn't change it.

You created a meson variable wrapping a dict which contains an element named PKG_CONFIG_PATH and which is suitable for passing as the env kwarg to various functions, such as custom_target or test.

That's not capable of modifying the original shell environment you ran meson under.

[wbehrens-on-gh]

is there a way I can tell meson/pkg-config to look in that directory while keeping it all contained inside meson?

[wbehrens-on-gh]

Using the python module in meson you can in theory set environment variables via that but they dont effect the meson task and thus dont work