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reply Graham Fawcett <fawcett uwindsor.ca> writes:
Hi folks,

I've got a Windows service that I'd like to write in D, if possible. I 
see that Andrej Mitrovic has provided a binding for the relevant parts of 
the Windows API (thanks!):

https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/blob/master/win32/
winsvc.d

Has anyone used this (or another binding) to write an actual service? 
Particularly, I was hoping to find a "base class" that takes care of 
common tasks (installing, removing, starting, etc.).

Thanks!
Graham
Feb 21 2012
next sibling parent reply Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
Noooo, it wasn't me. I keep having to tell this to people, it was
taken from http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi
but it often doesn't compile with the latest compiler version so I
keep it updated inside my project.
Feb 21 2012
parent Graham Fawcett <fawcett uwindsor.ca> writes:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:35:34 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:


 Noooo, it wasn't me. I keep having to tell this to people, it was taken
 from http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi but it
 often doesn't compile with the latest compiler version so I keep it
 updated inside my project.


Ah, sorry to spread misinformation, Andrej. :)

Graham
Feb 21 2012
prev sibling parent reply DNewbie <run3 myopera.com> writes:
Here is a simple service in D
http://my.opera.com/run3/blog/2012/02/23/windows-services-in-d
It's basically c translated to d.


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012, at 03:08 PM, Graham Fawcett wrote:

 Hi folks,
 
 I've got a Windows service that I'd like to write in D, if possible. I 
 see that Andrej Mitrovic has provided a binding for the relevant parts of 
 the Windows API (thanks!):
 
 https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/blob/master/win32/
 winsvc.d
 
 Has anyone used this (or another binding) to write an actual service? 
 Particularly, I was hoping to find a "base class" that takes care of 
 common tasks (installing, removing, starting, etc.).
 
 Thanks!
 Graham
Feb 22 2012
next sibling parent Graham Fawcett <fawcett uwindsor.ca> writes:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:33:04 +0100, DNewbie wrote:


 Here is a simple service in D
 http://my.opera.com/run3/blog/2012/02/23/windows-services-in-d It's
 basically c translated to d.


Hey, thanks for this. I ended up doing the same thing (translating an 
existing service from C++). But my code is messy, and I shall mine your 
example for improvements. :) I am *very* glad I could write this thing in 
D!

One thing that bit me: if you want to use an extended Service Control 
Handler (RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx), these functions are absent from 
advapi32.lib (at least in my recent version of DMD). I had to include a 
linkage.def file, when linking, to get it working:

EXETYPE NT
 
IMPORTS
RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerExA 12 = advapi32.RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerExA


Cheers,
Graham




 
 
 On Tue, Feb 21, 2012, at 03:08 PM, Graham Fawcett wrote:

 Hi folks,
 
 I've got a Windows service that I'd like to write in D, if possible. I
 see that Andrej Mitrovic has provided a binding for the relevant parts
 of the Windows API (thanks!):
 
 https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/blob/master/win32/
 winsvc.d
 
 Has anyone used this (or another binding) to write an actual service?
 Particularly, I was hoping to find a "base class" that takes care of
 common tasks (installing, removing, starting, etc.).
 
 Thanks!
 Graham
Feb 23 2012
prev sibling parent reply "HeiHon" <heiko.honrath gmx.de> writes:
On Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 01:33:10 UTC, DNewbie wrote:

 Here is a simple service in D
 http://my.opera.com/run3/blog/2012/02/23/windows-services-in-d
 It's basically c translated to d.


This example seems to have 404ed.

Is there an example of a simple service written in D2 somewhere?

I have a service written in D1 that works just fine. But I 
couldn't get it to work with D2 - I think I ran into the same 
problems as Steve Teale:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ic32he$2ifl$1 digitalmars.com

All other example code I could find also was D1 only.
Sep 07 2013
parent reply "Tyler Jensen" <tyler tsjensen.com> writes:
I am very interested to find a good example for D2 of a Windows 
Service implementation. Can you point me to one?


On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 13:57:07 UTC, HeiHon wrote:

 On Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 01:33:10 UTC, DNewbie wrote:

 Here is a simple service in D
 http://my.opera.com/run3/blog/2012/02/23/windows-services-in-d
 It's basically c translated to d.


 This example seems to have 404ed.

 Is there an example of a simple service written in D2 somewhere?

 I have a service written in D1 that works just fine. But I 
 couldn't get it to work with D2 - I think I ran into the same 
 problems as Steve Teale:

 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ic32he$2ifl$1 digitalmars.com

 All other example code I could find also was D1 only.
Aug 08 2014
parent "Tyler Jensen" <tyler tsjensen.com> writes:
Found this:

https://github.com/alvatar/snippets/blob/086f1714927df1338ac36b3633a3a91034a8347c/d/scrapple/bevutils/ServiceBase.d

Will be exploring it to see if I can make it work.


On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 05:08:40 UTC, Tyler Jensen wrote:

 I am very interested to find a good example for D2 of a Windows 
 Service implementation. Can you point me to one?


 On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 13:57:07 UTC, HeiHon wrote:

 On Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 01:33:10 UTC, DNewbie wrote:

 Here is a simple service in D
 http://my.opera.com/run3/blog/2012/02/23/windows-services-in-d
 It's basically c translated to d.


 This example seems to have 404ed.

 Is there an example of a simple service written in D2 
 somewhere?

 I have a service written in D1 that works just fine. But I 
 couldn't get it to work with D2 - I think I ran into the same 
 problems as Steve Teale:

 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ic32he$2ifl$1 digitalmars.com

 All other example code I could find also was D1 only.
Aug 09 2014