• DNewbie <run3 myopera.com> Feb 22 2012
• Graham Fawcett <fawcett uwindsor.ca> Feb 23 2012

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
 

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