Lout - logging output

A logging framework

Features

• Customizable log-levels
  • Active levels can be adjusted at run-time.
• Support for custom output channels (inherit from lout::output::IOutput)
• Filtering - log messages can be categorized with a custom string which enables filtering on that category.
  • Priority categories - if a message is tagged with a priority category, it will be logged regardless of active level.
• Operator overloading for short-hand logging.
• Fallback to std::cerr (or custom stream) in case of issues with getting things written to the output.

Included in the box

• Output handlers for File, Rolling Files and std::cout.
• Ready-to-use log levels (Info, Warning, Error, Vebose, Debug).
• Customizable logging output format
• Customizable thread synchronization mechanism

##Usage Please see the test project for examples on how to setup, configure and use Lout. Here's a hint though: LoutLogger is the class you want to use. Have a look at the top of the test project for how you can use macros to reduce typing and to define 'named' loggers for different log levels and categories.

##Getting the source The test project uses Catch (https://github.com/philsquared/Catch) for testing and rlutil (https://github.com/tapio/rlutil) for colored output so you need that cloned too.

Use git clone --recursive https://github.com/PerMalmberg/lout.git

Building

Requires a C++ 11 compliant compiler.

Standard CMakeLists.txt files included, directly usable by CLion etc. To compile in MSVC on Windows, do:

cd <path root of project>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" ..

then open the generated solution.

Building boost

For reference, these are the commands I used to build boost filesystem libraries

Linux

./b2 --prefix=/usr/local/boost_1_61_0 --with-libraries=filesystem link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static variant=release

Windows

b2 --with-filesystem variant=release link=static address-model=64 install