3. Building the liblogger.

1.1. Building for linux/unix platforms:

• The build system uses scons which can be freely obtained for any platform.
• To build just run the command scons, from the folder build, which will create the static library, shared library and a test app which uses the shared library.
  To check network logging, then before running the test app, also start the log server, using command "python log_server.py" (in linux/unix) or simply clicking on the log_server.py on windows. If the log server is not running and / or connection fails, then the netowk logs will be redirected to the console. To run the test app under linux/unix :

    $export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    $./logger_test
    

The supported build options can be viewed using "scons -h" command:

• RELEASE - used to enable O3 optimizations and exclude debugging symbols. example: scons RELEASE=1
• DISABLE_THREAD_SAFETY - used to disable thread safety checks, use if you have a single thread of execution.
• DISABLE_SOCKET_LOGGER - used to disable network logger, use it if you are not using socket logging.
• CROSS_COMPILE - used for cross compilation.

Examples :

• For cross compiling to arm without a socket logger : scons CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- DISABLE_SOCKET_LOGGER=1
• For compiling with O3 optimizations : scons RELEASE=1
• To enable the option just use OptionName=1

1.2. Building for Windows platform

• To build for Windows platform, the Visual Studio 2005 solution with console based test app is provided under folder src/build/liblogger_win32/

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