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boost_log example with sinks fails to compile
I was considering using boost_log for one project and right at the beginning I faced following problem.
Boost Log Example I found at: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/log/example/doc/tutorial_file.cpp fails to compile. Other simpler…
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Boost Log run-time optimization
I am using Boost-Log and the global severity logger for my application's logging platform.
Profiling shows that the boost::log::v2s_mt_posix::core::open_record can take up to
25% of the total execution time.
I do have many log messages BUT I would…
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How to log line number of coder in boost log 2.0?
Can I use LineID attribute for this?
I hope I could use sink::set_formatter to do this instead of using
__LINE__
and
__FILE__
in each log statement.
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How to add color coding to boost::log console output?
I'm trying to add colored log output for boost::log under linux. I read the following and I tried this:
#define MY_LOG_ERROR() BOOST_LOG_TRIVIAL(error) << "\033[1;31"
MY_LOG_ERROR() << "This is an error log."
but it gives me the result…
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how to print ProcessID and ThreadID in dec-format with boost.log
I use boost.log in my program, and the default formatter outputs the ProcessID and ThreadID in hex-format, anyone knows how to print them in dec-format, thanks.
this is the github of my code : https://github.com/owenliang/boost_asio, thanks.
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How to reinitialize Boost Log library on fork?
Boost.Log does not support fork(). This is kind of unbelievable, but a ticket comment describes a workaround:
[..] so for now it's up to users to reinitialize the library at fork. You can use pthread_atfork to do such reinitialization.
Thus my…
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Boost.Log: Support file name and line number
I am trying to make my team go away from log4cxx and try to use Boost.Log v2 instead. Our current log4cxx pattern is rather simple:
log4cxx::helpers::Properties prop;
prop.setProperty("log4j.rootLogger","DEBUG,…
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How can I use Boost.Log across DLL boundaries?
I am trying to integrate Boost.Log in a fairly large application that is composed of a main application that dynamically loads plugins from DLLs. The initial idea was to pass a logging source to plugins so that they can add log messages. However, as…
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why my format doesn't work in boost log
I am using boost::log in this function:
#include
#include
#include
#include
void InitLog() {
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Reason for libboost_log_setup.a library?
In the latest Boost 1.54 release I see Boost.Log library appeared. When I compile whole Boost 1.54 I see that for the Log library it produced 2 binaries:
libboost_log.a
libboost_log_setup.a
What is the reason for the libboost_log_setup.a library?…
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Boost.log: How to prevent the output will be duplicated to all added streams when it uses the add_file_log() function?
I use the add_file_log() function to initialize a logging sink that stores log records into a text file. When I define several sinks, I have observed:
a file is created for each sink.
the output is copied to all files.
This is my logger:
class…
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Is it possible to retrieve the logged message as a string from boost::log::record_view?
The documentation of record_view states that it encapsulates the log message string.
I'd like to retrieve it in the context of the consume function of a custom basic_string_backend subclass.
Is it possible, or do I have to derive from…
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In Boost Log, how do I format a custom severity_level using a format string?
I'm using boost log in my C++ program, and I have a custom severity_logger< severity_level > using a severity_level enum that I defined. Then I create my log sink with the format string "%TimeStamp% [%ThreadID%] %Severity% %Module% - %Message%" but…
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Overloading << Operator for Boost Logging Object
So I want to use Boost.Log for all my logging purposes. I currently wrote a class that encompasses all the required operations of instantiating and setting up helper methods.
Problem is that I want to overload the << operator to use it in a cout…
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Boost.Log unable to set logging filter (undeclared identifier 'severity')
I'm trying to get Boost.Log going in my project. The problem comes in the following line from the trivial example:
using namespace boost::log;
core::get()->set_filter
(
trivial::severity >= trivial::info
);
In my code, this translates to the…
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