Syslog directory doesn't exist - c

Question

so I'm using Debian on my personal windows laptop.
I'm doing an assignment that entails using the syslog c library to print from my program when the statements run.
Here's the relevant code I used in my program:
#include <syslog.h>
(then in main)
openlog("slog",LOG_PID|LOG_CONS,LOG_USER);
syslog(LOG_INFO,"wuddup to u");
closelog();
There's no issues with the code running, but I can't find any file that has the log I printed.
on Debian, syslog is supposed to be saved in either in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages.
/var/log exists, but I don't have either of these folders inside it.
It doesn’t appear to be in a hidden file, so I don't imagine it's a permission problem.
syslog.conf which should be located in /etc also doesn’t exist.
However,
there is a reference to syslog in rsyslog.conf which does exist in /etc
a section within rsyslog.conf titled RULES starts like this:
#
# First some standard log files. Log by facility.
#
auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
#cron.* /var/log/cron.log
daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
user.* -/var/log/user.log
I haven’t figured out what the dashes or the rest of it could really mean.
Here’s the output for some possibly relevant commands I tried in the terminal:
dmesg
[ 0.007738] Microsoft 4.4.0-18362.1049-Microsoft 4.4.35
uname -a
Linux DESKTOP-KH1LDFG 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft #1049-Microsoft Thu Aug 14 12:01:00 PST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
find /syslog
find: ‘/syslog’: No such file or directory
sudo apt-get install syslog
[sudo] password for sarah:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package syslog
mkdir syslog (from /var/log)
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘syslog’: Permission denied
sudo service rsyslog start
[....] Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogdrsyslogd: set SO_TIMESTAMP failed on '/dev/log': Invalid argument [v8.1901.0]
rsyslogd: imklog: cannot open kernel log (/proc/kmsg): No such file or directory.
rsyslogd: activation of module imklog failed [v8.1901.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2145 ]
. ok

Answer 1

I ran
'sudo apt-get install --reinstall rsyslog'
followed by
'sudo apt-get install wsl'
and then I recompiled my program and ran it again. Then I checked the files in /var/log and syslog was there! with my log messages!! Thank you!