qtservice for Qt6

mrdebug

Hi, is qtservice (https://github.com/qtproject/qt-solutions) available for Qt6? If not which is the right way to create a Windows service using Qt?

JonB

See also https://forum.qt.io/topic/148028/qt-application-like-daemon-how.
I see no evidence that it, or anything else, has been updated/written for Qt6.
If it works for Qt5, did you try having a look at it with a view to updating for Qt6? If you're lucky it will work or not be much to do.

devnull21

Hi, any update on this? Updating from Qt5 to Qt6 did show errors because of deprecated APIs. Even I want to know what the right way is! (for now I am trying to manually update qtservice files based on the errors, but I am not sure how right that is)

mrdebug

I think it is necessary to port the Qt5 service library to Qt6.
I haven't did it because the qt6 already built framework can't run on Windows 2016 machines and I have a lot of them. Qt6 requires Windows 10. So, up to now, I'm using Qt5.

mrdebug

Here you are, a Qt5 and Qt6 example on how to create Windows services and Linux daemons.
https://github.com/denisgottardello/QtService