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

• 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.

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.

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.

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.