Windows Service application with Island?

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I see there’s a Windows Service template using Oxygene and .NET, but is it possible to create one in Island?

2

We don’t have one, but it should be possible to do, for sure.

3

Do you have any documentation or examples that you can provide?
Does IslandRTL currently have any facilities to support this?

For example, I have found this documentation for creating one in C++:

From the looks of it this example is referencing “advapi32.lib” which I am guessing is a wrapper for advapi32.dll. Is there a similar wrapper in IslandRTL or do I need to start from scratch?

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This should translate/covert easily then.

5

Actually, I think I’ve found a better reference. Namely the ServiceBase source code from mono:

There are some bits that I’m not sure about.

For example, there are marshal items such as

[MarshalAs (UnmanagedType.LPWStr)]
public string lpServiceName;

and

IntPtr arg = Marshal.ReadIntPtr (argPointer, IntPtr.Size * i);
args[i] = Marshal.PtrToStringUni (arg);

Are the equivalents?

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These would be specific to .NET/Mono. Assuming you’re still targeting native/Island here, you could just pass/treat these as they are. an LPWStr, as I recall, is a long pointer to a wide string, IOW a standard null-terminated ^Char.