lanamirko04 / slog

An easy-to-use logging library for C programming language

SLog (Shitty Logging)

Shitty Logging (SLog) is an easy-to-use logging library for C programming language. It provides a basic logging functionality with different log levels: INFO, DEBUG, WARNING and ERROR.

Demo

Features

• Logging messages with different log levels.
• Customizable log output.
• Color support.
• Clean text for piped output or files.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/LanaMirko04/slog.git
$ cd slog
$ sudo make install

or

Copy files in src directory to your project

$ tree
.
├── LICENSE
├── Makefile
├── README.md
└── src
    ├── main.c
    ├── slog.c
    └── slog.h

Usage

Console logging

#include <stdio.h>
#include <slog.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  int log_level = LV_INFO | LV_DEBUG | LV_WARN | LV_ERROR; // or LV_ALL
  SLOG_INIT(NULL, log_level);

  SLOG_INFO("This is an info message");
  SLOG_DEBUG("This is a debug message");
  SLOG_WARN("This is a warning message");
  SLOG_ERROR("This is an error message");

  return 0;
}

File logging

#include <stdio.h>
#include <slog.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  int log_level = LV_ALL;
  SLOG_INIT("path/to/file", log_level);

  SLOG_INFO("This is an info message");
  SLOG_DEBUG("This is a debug message");
  SLOG_WARN("This is a warning message");
  SLOG_ERROR("This is an error message");

  return 0;
}

Compilation

gcc -o example example.c -lslog

License

SLog is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Acknowledgements

• VHS