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Installation guide

This page provides WinSW installation guidelines for different cases.

Installation steps

In order to setup WinSW, you commonly need to perform the following steps:

Take WinSW.exe from the distribution, and rename it to your taste (such as myapp.exe)
Write myapp.xml (see the XML config file specification for more details)
Place those two files side by side, because that's how WinSW discovers its configuration.
Run myapp.exe install <OPTIONS> in order to install the service wrapper.
Run myapp.exe start to start the service.

There are some details for each step available below.

Installation step details

Step 2. Configuration file

You write the configuration file that defines your service. The example below is a primitive example being used in the Jenkins project:

<service>
  <id>jenkins</id>
  <name>Jenkins</name>
  <description>This service runs Jenkins continuous integration system.</description>
  <env name="JENKINS_HOME" value="%BASE%"/>
  <executable>java</executable>
  <arguments>-Xrs -Xmx256m -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" --httpPort=8080</arguments>
  <log mode="roll"></log>
</service>

The full specification of the configuration file is available here.

Step 3. Service registration

You can then install the service like:

myapp.exe install <OPTIONS>

... and you can use the exit code from these processes to determine whether the operation was successful. Possible exit codes are described here. Beyond these error codes, all the non-zero exit code should be assumed as a failure.

The Installer can be also started with the /p option. In such case it will prompt for an account name and password, which should be used as a service account.

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