Hi,

I'm trying to come up with a good solution for a project where I'm aiming at using a component based architecture.
I done this under Win32 using C# to create .net assemblies which are just dlls which can be loaded into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) the regsitered as a system service.
I'm assuming that Linux offers this in the form of Daemons although I imagine the approach is a little different.

I was hoping that the QtService solution provided on the Trolltech site would help to produce the correct dll type.
I've manged to create a dll called Service1 which subclasses from QtService<QCoreApplication>. It compiles fine, and I'm sure that compiling under linux would give me an equivalent .so file.

The bit that I see as being different is that the dll should have a bunch of extra symbols and win32 interfaces implemented automatically that allow the dll to be loaded into the gac and registered.
This doesn't seem to be the case though.
I tried 'gacutil /i Service1.dll' but I just get the message "An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.'

service1_global.h (generated as part of the project by VS integration) defines the following:
Qt Code: 
  1. #ifdef SERVICE1_LIB
  2. # define SERVICE1_EXPORT Q_DECL_EXPORT
  3. #else
  4. # define SERVICE1_EXPORT Q_DECL_IMPORT
  5. #endif
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Q_DECL_EXPORT is a QT macro for __declspec(dllexport) which is standard windows dll guff, and my guess is that I need to stick some other macros in which will export the symbols needed for this to qualify as a GAC'able dll.

Has anyone gone down this path before?
( And worked it out )



Thanks,

Steve York