A tiny C logging library which also implements exceptions and assertions
This project started out at work when i needed a quick and simple logging tool, without the need for excessive configuration and setup. After some thinkering i came up with this implementation, which made me really happy.
I also must admit that i'm not really proficient at C programming AT ALL, this project will be kept really simple and minimal, with only some portability tweaks here and there (PRs welcome! 😍)
The code is really, really simple, you just need to run one of the following:
$ make
Running make will simply build the library as a .so file inside the lib/ directory, it will also generate the proper folder
structure and headers at include/
# make install
make install will automatically compile and try to copy the header files to /usr/local/include/assertutils/ and the library to
/usr/local/lib/assertutils/. You can specify an alternate prefix by passing the DISTDIR option like:
$ make install DISTDIR=some_directory
The directory will be created automatically, with the correct folder structure (mkdir -p magic).
$ make example
Running make example will compile assertutils along with the examples for you to play around, they are stored in the bin/ folder,
currently, there are only 3 basic examples: fail.c, success.c and art.c, feel free to play around and explore some interesting use
cases, do consider opening a pull request (or an issue) if you find weird/unexpected behaviour.
This project is a work in progress, the current version is only a simple prototype, I do intend to correctly handle different platforms at a later stage, but that requires some things to be done first, which takes us to the next section:
- Improve the build system (don't look at the Makefile, it's frightening)
- Reduce the macro abuse in assertutils.h
- Plan a better error checking model
- Add tests
- Make the code more portable (the only things in the way right now really are the colors)