Using Boost logging in a plugin

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#1

Hello all,
I wanted to use some logging to a file in /data/user_data when developing, to aid debugging. Rather than rolling my own logging I’d hoped to use boost libraries…

#include <boost/log/trivial.hpp>

I tried that include hopeful that the library might be included in the mod devices dev environment. That file is there and got picked up, but threw an error for something else missing in the dev environment:

/home/john/mod-workdir/moddwarf/host/usr/aarch64-buildroot-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/include/boost/log/trivial.hpp:18:10: fatal error: iosfwd: No such file or directory
 #include <iosfwd>
           ^~~~~~~~

Any chance that file could be added to the dev environment or is there another prefered way to log to file?

#2

MOD support lv2_log, this will print logging into the browser console.
A example how to use it is here:
plugin-examples/logging/mod-log.c at main · moddevices/plugin-examples · GitHub

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