windows-service

This is a header only library that allows you to quickly write a Windows Service by using a simple interface if you're using CMake 3.19+. It is also structured according to https://github.com/robotology/how-to-export-cpp-library#-other-template-and-examples.

This is a fork from a MIT licensed windows-service template created by Mikko Saarinki and located here https://github.com/Kingston1/windows-service.

This fork attempts to make this repo into something that can be used by other CMake projects easily with the following CMake:

include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(
        LibWindowsService
        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/Allar/windows-service
        GIT_TAG        1.0
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(LibWindowsService)

And CMake for linking:

target_link_libraries(${EXE_TARGET_NAME} LibWindowsService)

Example

An example on how to use this Windows Service library can be found at https://github.com/Allar/windows-service-example.

Important

I forked and made this repo so I can easily write Windows Services without understanding how to write a Windows Service and completely abstract this away from myself. I have no idea about the implementation details and am really not qualified to maintain this repo. Please raise issues and pull requests if you're you could be so inclined.

TODO

• Document how to use this
• Add notification tray icon support
• Write meaningful tests
• Set up CI stuff