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What is the cleanest, most reliable way to run a Windows application as a service without touching its code?
Use case: NorthScale’s 64-bit Windows version of memcached runs as a generic application. I’d like to stick it into a Windows 2003 or 2008 Service so I can start/stop/restart/etc it through the standard interface.
The Windows Resource Kit has any executable,
srvany.exethat can be used, as described here, to run basically any exe as a service. The setup is a little convoluted (requires a registry edit), but should work for most things that can be run as a user applicaiton.