Shared pain

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:53:53 -0500, Steve Teale  
<steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:33:12 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>>
>> I think using a class in D is a good idea.  But what you may need is
>> global functions which forward to your class methods.  This is how I
>> would probably do it.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Steve,
>
> Thanks. I kind of went that way. Having done the laborious C OOP style
> thing, I put most of the methods back into the struct, just leaving the
> extern(Windows) functions at global scope - they referred to the
> __gshare'd object explicitly - I hate that.
>
> Then I hid all of the crap behind a class that sneakily referred to the
> __gshared struct, but at least now to an external user of the module the
> interface looks much the same as it did before.
>
> Now it works OK with the test case example - a service that just writes
> entries in the event log. However, the real service I'm trying to update
> works fine if I run it in debug mode (i.e. basically as just an
> executable), but if I run it as a service it seems to crash the first
> time I use a RegExp.find().

As I said before, I don't know if the thread being created by the windows  
service procedure is properly initializing the D modules of the  
library/runtime.  Try as the first line of ServiceMain to initialize the  
current thread:

auto mythread = thread_attachThis();

see http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/core_thread.html

-Steve