Stumpless at a glance

Stumpless is a logging library built with a vision: a rich and intuitive interface, standards compliance, fast performance, and a small footprint.

Currently stumpless offers standardized logging to the following targets:

• network servers (UDP or TCP over IPv4 or IPv6)
• files
• streams
• Linux sockets
• the Windows Event Log
• character buffers

To see where we’re heading in the near future, check out the project roadmap.

More info

If you’re just looking to start out, then take a look at some of the examples below. There is source code for each of these in the docs/examples folder of the repository if you want to actually compile and run them.

• Basic Usage
• Using Severity Levels
• Working with Entries
• File Targets
• Network Targets
• Unix Socket Targets
• Stream Targets
• Windows Event Log Targets
• C++ Bindings

Detailed documentation of each function is included in the header files, and is written using standard Doxygen syntax. You can generate the documentation yourself with the docs build target, or you can look at one of the online lists below:

• C Doxygen Documentation
• C++ Doxygen Documentation