It's possible to run Tcl scripts as services under Microsoft Windows NT. Matt Newman has done a nice job of producing a wrapper, tclsvc that lets any event-driven Tcl script run as a service. Get it from
http://www.sensus.org/tcl/index.htm
or
http://mkextensions.sf.net/
I find the latter to be a somewhat nicer distribution. I'm working on beefing up the documentation but I'm not sure where to put it. Give me a hollar if you want a copy of my draft. -- Chris Nelson
Firedaemon [L1 ] is an alternative.
Winserv is another alternative.
Activestate's Tcl Dev Kit provides a tool as well.
I'm using AS tcldev kit to wrap a service. I notice an issue when my service code does an open
set pch [open "|$program" r] fileevent $pch readable readableproc
I notice readableproc is never called when run under the service. When the same code is run standalone it works fine. Anybody know what's going on here? - RT 20, November 2004