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2115 :: How to write a Windows service?

• lihf8515 (orginal) [2016-03-12T05:42:22+01:00] view original

  Master, can you give me an example? I do not want to let the program run in the command line window, I want to write the program Windows services.

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• rgv151 (orginal) [2016-03-12T16:06:45+01:00] view original

  instruction here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3582179/246222

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• Varriount (orginal) [2016-03-13T06:25:04+01:00] view original

  Hm. That's for a C program - I imagine that one would probably either need to modify the compiler, or link/emit the main service function.

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2018-10-20T14:36:03+02:00] view original

  https://github.com/enthus1ast/nimWindowsService/

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• mikra (orginal) [2018-10-20T15:16:06+02:00] view original

  nice. I will try it and give you feedback

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• cumulonimbus (orginal) [2018-10-24T11:36:01+02:00] view original

  The (non-)selected Stack Overflow response recommends using NSSM (The "Non Sucking Service Manager"), and I do to - it can run any executable as a service, collect and rotate its stdout/stderr, and makes it easy to register, inspect etc.

  I'm not sure how it passes e.g. suspend requests, but for 99% of use cases, it seems to make running and using services much much simpler.

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2018-10-24T13:05:39+02:00] view original

  Yeah i know NSSM and have used it successfully. I had a few reasons for haveing windows service code for Nim:

  1. I'm more comfortable with nim than c
  2. i want to be able to write stand alone applications which can be executed as 'normal' executable and also runs in the windows service context.

  3. one executable can implement multiple windows services, idk if NSSM can do this. (4. learning and my amusement)

  I'am working on a higher level version (and without globals) but got stuck on an issue (it seems that the nim object i give to RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx as the lpContext: LPVOID gets garbage collected) which are not resolved yet. When i got it working i'll update the repo.

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