Getting started

Oolong is an object oriented logging system for modern Fortran. The aim of this project is to provide a simple, flexible logging interface that will enable a wide range of logging functionality for a wide range of model paradigms.

The project uses the Fortran package manager (FPM) as a build system. Simply install FPM and use fpm build to build the oolong library. An example of the functionality of offer can be run with fpm run --example and the test suite can be run with fpm test.

Installation

To install Oolong as a static library, run

fpm install --prefix .

Additionally, installation can be achieved with Spack for users that want to bypass FPM as an immediate dependency. This can be achieved by running:

spack repo add .spack
spack install oolong

Usage

The Oolong logging system can be used from within a Fortran application. The minimum amount of code needed to get started is shown below:

use oolong, only: logger_type, LEVEL_INFO
...
type(logger_type) :: log
log = logger_type(LEVEL_INFO)
call log%event("Hello world!", LEVEL_INFO)

which produces the following output:

[2024-03-05 14:14:09.573] INFO: Hello world!

More advanced usage can be seen in the examples/demo.f90 file.