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- This is the distribution of Log4C (last updated 13 Nov 2006)
- * What is Log4C
- Log4C is a C library for flexible logging to files, syslog and other
- destinations. It is modeled after the Log for Java library
- (http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/), staying as close to their API as is
- reasonable.
-
- As well as the "doc" directory in the Log4C repository, see also here for
- more documentation on Log4c:
-
- http://log4c.sourceforge.net/
- http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=38627
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4C
-
- * Licensing
- Log4C libraries are released under the terms of the GNU Lesser
- General Public License (GNU LGPL).
- You can find copies of the license in the file COPYING
- * What you will need to compile Log4C on Unix systems
- perl 5.8+ (used by the automake tools)
- GNU make tools: automake 1.7+, autoconf 2.57+, m4 1.4+ and libtool 1.4+
- A Compiler, among those tested are:
- . gcc3 (on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4)
- . gcc4 (on HP-UX 11.11i, on Fedora Core 5)
- . Sun cc (versions 5.3 and 5.7 on Solaris 8 and higher, sparc and i386)
- . HPUX ansi C compiler (on HPUX v11.11i, pa-risc)
- . AIX xlc compiler
- If you request at compile time that the expat library be used to help parse
- the configuration file, then you will need the expat library available
- on the system. If you do not use expat then pre-generated files from
- obsolete versions of flex and bison are used to do the parsing--this code
- is still supported for the moment but it is recommended to use expat.
- For information on compiling on Microsoft Windows see the README in the msvc6
- directory.
- * Where to find ...
- GNU automake tools:
- http://gcc.gnu.org
- http://www.sunfreeware.com/ for pre-built Solaris packages
- http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ for re-built HP-UX depots
- gcc3 or gcc4
- http://gcc.gnu.org
- http://www.sunfreeware.com for pre-built Solaris packages
- http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ for re-built HP-UX depots
- Log4C
- http://log4c.sf.net/ This SourceForge site is now the main log4c site.
- expat
- http://expat.sourceforge.net/
- * How to for library users who download a released tarball (eg.
- log4c-1.2.0.tar.gz):
- The Log4C package uses the GNU autotools compilation and installation
- framework.
-
- We recommend that you do not build in the source directories themselves;
- rather make a build directory into which the configure script will generate
- the Makefiles and build the library and binaries in there. This is better
- because it allows you to separate the source from the binaries and also to
- maintain a compiled version of Log4C for different platforms--make a build
- directory for each of the platforms you support and run configure on each of
- your build machines.
-
- So, for example, you might create directories called build-fc5, build-rh3,
- build-Solaris10x86, build-hpuxi11 and so on for your various builds. These
- example commands below should compile Log4C on each of the supported
- platforms:
-
- $ tar -zxvf log4c-1.2.0.tar.gz
- $ mkdir build; cd build
- $ ../log4c-1.2.0/configure --prefix=/path/of/installation
- $ make
- $ make install
- To build the binary, source, developer and debuginfo RPMs for Linux:
- $ make rpm
- To enable compilation of the test programs for the library you would do this:
- $ ../log4c-1.2.0/configure --prefix=/path/of/installation --enable-test
-
- To enable the dcumentation generation
- $ ../log4c-1.2.0/configure --prefix=/path/of/installation --enable-doc
-
- To specify a compiler other than gcc at configure time you would do something
- like this:
- $ ../log4c-1.2.0/configure --prefix=/path/of/installation --enable-test \
- CC=/usr/SUNWspro/bin/cc
- To cross-compile using MinGW:
- $ ../log4c/configure \
- --enable-test --enable-doc \
- --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
- To get started with the examples see the README in the examples source code
- directory and run them from the build directory as follows:
- $ cd examples
- $ ./application_1
- $ ./application_2
- * How to for library developers ...
-
- When you check out Log4C from CVS (as opposed to downloading a released
- tarball) you will need to generate the configure script and so on. To do this
- run the bootstrap script. This script must be run in the source directories
- themselves:
-
- $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@log4c.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/log4c login
- $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@log4c.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/log4c co -P log4c
- $ cd log4c
- $ ./bootstrap
- To compile in extra tracing and messages and compile the doc you would do
- this from your build directory:
- $ ../log4c/configure --prefix=/path/of/installation --enable-test \
- --enable-debug --enable-doc
- This will define the __SD_DEBUG__ variable at compile time. Note that you
- still need to define the SD_ERROR and SD_DEBUG environment variables at run
- time to actually see the error/debug output.
- Type '../log4c/configure --help' for a list of all the configure
- options. Some of the options are generic autoconf options, while the Log4C
- specific options are prefixed with "LOG4C" in the help text.
- Have Fun !!
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