dcmtk in a service

[bibble_235]

Hi,

Had a binary I wanted to run in a windows service. This is cross platform and I use upstart to run it on Linux.

If I run it without the windows service wrapper as a plain .exe then the software works great. However if I wrap it in windows service wrappers, the ones they provide on the MDSDN, it fails over.

Tracked it down to consap.cc

log4cplus::tostream& output = (logToStdErr ? ofConsole.lockCerr() : ofConsole.lockCout());
output << "I will not crash"

Is there anyting I can do?

[Uli Schlachter]

So as soon as DCMTK tries to use cout or cerr, it crashes? Windows services are weird...

You could use the --log-config option that a lot of the tools provide to make it use something else than the ConsoleAppender for logging (e.g. a FileAppender or a NullAppender).

If you are running your own code, calling Logger::getRoot().removeAllAppenders(); should get rid of the ConsoleAppender.

Hope this helps,
Uli