rozanski/srvstart

This repository contains the legacy code I wrote for SrvStart in 2000. SrvStart allows you to run an ordinary Windows executable as a Windows service.

srvstart's Issues

Would you please provide a release zipball for using?

Thanks for the work but would the author please provide a zipball include built .exe and dependencies dll, which can be run under normal platform like x64?

Thanks very mych.

No file logger.h

When I try to compile:

>g++ -O3 -o srvstart exe\exe.cpp
exe\exe.cpp:51:20: fatal error: logger.h: No such file or directory
 #include <logger.h>
                    ^

There no file logger.h both distributed with this software and in Win32 API, neither in C++.

How to compile this?!

Reorganize

Very useful project. I wanted to deploy a Java application as a Windows Service and thought to write a tool to generalize that to any kind of daemon process. Then realized surely it's been done before, and a quick search found yours!

But shocked by the organization of this repo. I'm avoiding hyperbole here that would sound mean. Would be much better if it had a doc folder, a src folder with the source files ready to build, build instructions and scripts. And then you tag releases under which you deploy the build output(s) as assets. As it is with a bunch of zip files, someone coming here doesn't know what they need to download for their specific need.

For example, I just needed the artifacts to run the application. Do I need to download all the _run zips? No I think, just srvstart/srvstart_run.v110.zip. Typically you would deploy this as a release asset. If someone needs the docs, they can just download those (or you could zip a separate asset), and if someone needs the source, then they clone the repo.