TDaemon minimal example crashes
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Eclipticon · 2011-10-20 20:29

Hi all,

I am working on a Windows service, using the TDaemon class. For
demonstration purposes, if have created a minimalisic example of an
implementation (see attachment).

DaemonTest.exe -i and DaemonTest.exe -u for
installation/deinstallation of the service work properly.Whenever I
try to start the service from the "Services" list, I get an error
message like "The service ... could not be started on the local
computer. Error 3: The system can not find the path specified."
(translated from German) - which makes no sense, because it is a very
ordinary path name, without spaces or special characters.Trying to
start the service with DaemonTest.exe -r causes an "An unhandled
Exception occured at ... EAccessViolation" error after a few seconds.
What am I doing wrong?!  I also wanted to ask if there is any simpler
approach to write a service for Windows, because in this particular
case, a Unix daemon makes no sense anyway ...

Thanks :-)