jlog - Just Barely Logging

jlog is a C++ library for logging to file, console, and event callbacks.

Features

• Modern (C++20)
• Static Library
• Color Output
• Logs to file AND console!
• Idiomatic Event callback for hooking into your game engine gui!

Installation

Include this repository as a CPM dependency, and link against the library. (TODO: Show the relevant CMake script lines.)

CPMAddPackage(
        NAME jlog
        URL https://git.redacted.cc/josh/jlog/archive/Prerelease-2.zip
)
# ...
include_directories(${jlog_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
# ...
target_link_libraries(YourProgram ... jlog)

Using jlog is straightforward:

#include <jlog.h>

int main() {
    INFO("This is barely useful information.");
    DEBUG("Debugging Information");
    VERBOSE("Yadda Yadda Yadda");
    WARNING("Slight miscalculation!");
    ERROR("Oops, something went wrong.");
    FATAL("Unrecoverable Error!!!");

    return 0;
}

Output

TODO

• Custom Contexts: Allow users to specify custom logging contexts for better organization.
  • Disable & sort by context (other categories?)
• Custom Formats: Add support for custom log message formats.
• Documentation
• Thread Safety
• Memory Safety
• Stream Support
• Identify File, Line, Function name via macros (I hate macros!!!)

License

This software is written and developed by Josh O'Leary @ Redacted Software 2024. This work is dedicated to the public domain.

Contributing

Send'em pull requests.