open source structured thread safe logging library for C (lemmy.ml)

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Is there a library for C, providing thread safe (high performance), and structured logging? An example for rust is the Tracing crate for rust (from Tokio). It should support several outputs as well.

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[-] Falmarri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've been looking for this for a few years now. Seems the answer is no, if you mean a de facto one. I hacked some structured log into spdlog, but it's far from good enough

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

BTW, that's a c++ lib (I was looking for a C one, but one never knows). I'm aware of zlog, for example, but it doesn't offer structured logs. Sad to read it seems there's no lib natively offering all this...

Thanks a lot !

[-] Falmarri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, misread the post, no idea for C sorry. I would think it would be really hard for C to have a generic structured log library, but I'm not a C expert

[-] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

We use boost log at work, it seems to meet all the criteria you ask for. It is a bit heavy on the compiler though and logging gets used everywhere so expect your build times to go up.

[-] JustCopyingOthers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, just reread your post, boost is c++ and you want c

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