Service Manager (Source code)
The source code to the world's first cross-platform, open source (MIT or LGPL), programming AND scripting language-agnostic solution to system service development.
If you are looking for binaries and instructions on using it, go here:
https://github.com/cubiclesoft/service-manager
Features
- Statically compiled targets.
- Local build and global install option for some platforms.
- Has a liberal open source license. MIT or LGPL, your choice.
- Sits on GitHub for all of that pull request and issue tracker goodness to easily submit changes and ideas respectively.
Building Service Manager
For some strange reason you are overcome by a bizarre desire to build this software product yourself. There is no ./configure && make here. Just good old-fashioned shell scripts.
Windows (VC++ command-line): build.bat
Mac (gcc): build_mac.sh
Linux and many variants (gcc): build_nix.sh
You may need to chmod +x or something to get the script to run, but you already knew that.
Building and Installing Locally
The primary target platform for Service Manager is the unified x86/x64 architecture (Windows, Mac, and Linux). However, for *NIX platforms on other architectures (e.g. the fairly popular ARM architecture), Service Manager can be compiled and optionally installed on the target system.
Simply run:
./build_nix.sh local
sudo ./install_nix.sh
Which will put the compiled binary at /usr/local/bin/servicemanager and the base service platform files into /usr/share/servicemanager/.
When Service Manager is installed as described above, the Service Manager SDK will generally prefer using the installed version instead of binaries that are bundled with a project.
Testing Service Manager
There is a test PHP-based service that handles 'notify.stop' and 'notify.reload' commands. It also supports - via the Service Manager PHP SDK - a couple of command-line options to make installation and removal easy:
php test_service.php install
php test_service.php start
php test_service.php stop
php test_service.php uninstall
php test_service.php configdump
You can, of course, write a test service in whatever language you want though. It's simple and straightforward.