#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <time.h>

// message_publish when you don't have a message publisher class
#define MAX_MSG_HEADER_SIZE 256
#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 20480
extern "C" int message_publish_standalone(int level, const char * format_msg, ...) {

    char msg_buf[MAX_MSG_SIZE];
    char date_buf[MAX_MSG_HEADER_SIZE];
    char hostname[64];
    time_t date ;
    va_list args;

    va_start(args, format_msg);
    (void) vsnprintf(msg_buf, MAX_MSG_SIZE, format_msg, args);
    va_end(args);

    date = time(NULL) ;
    strftime(date_buf, (size_t) 20, "%Y/%m/%d,%H:%M:%S", localtime(&date));
    (void) gethostname(hostname, (size_t) 48);
    fprintf(stdout, "|L %d|%s|  |%s|T %d|%.2f| %s" , level, 
            // so that we don't call any exec routines, use process id 0 and sim time 0.0
            date_buf, hostname , 0, 0.0, msg_buf) ;
    fflush(stdout) ;

    return (0);
}