Windows service in D

[Tyler Jensen via Digitalmars-d]

Ten years is a long time but perhaps this can help anyone running 
into this forum thread.

https://github.com/duovia/WindowsServiceInD

I'm using the Windows API library (source actually) on 
dsource.org. See link on the github page. I found it difficult to 
find a complete solution to the problem, so I'm going to cross 
post in a few places to make it easier to find for others seeking 
an answer to the same question.

On Wednesday, 9 June 2004 at 21:18:45 UTC, Walter wrote:
> If probably means you need to link in the .obj for the module 
> where
> SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY is defined.
>
> "Gifford Hesketh" <gifford.hesketh at savvis.net> wrote in message
> news:c93ciu$lk8$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> A few months ago, I asked if anyone had an example of a 
>> Windows service
>> written in D.  Not finding one, I wrote one -- although there 
>> was one
>> outstanding issue I wanted to resolve before making it public.
>>
>> Looking at this again, D's tools changes seem to have broken 
>> the
>> compilation.  Before I make anyone wade through my code, does 
>> an error
> like
>> the following look familiar to anyone ?
>>
>> \dm\samples\d\service>dmd -v service.d advapi32.lib
>> parse     service
>> semantic  service
>> semantic2 service
>> semantic3 service
>> code      service
>> generating code for function 'main'
>> generating code for function 'ServiceMain'
>> generating code for function 'ServiceCtrlHandler'
>> \dm\bin\link service,,,advapi32.lib+user32+kernel32/noi;
>> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
>> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
>>
>> service.obj(service)
>>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined __init_6winsvc19SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY
>>
>> --- errorlevel 1