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

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.

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

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
> 

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
>>

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.

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.

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.