It seems likely that it's not finding the regex DLL. Remember that services start in a different environment than user processes. It's possible, probable in fact, that the paths are different. As a quick check, copy the regex dll to the system directory (usually C:\WINNT\system32). If the service then starts, you know the problem and can figure out a better solution (what that is depends a lot on your situation). My personal favorite solution: Add "." at the start of the system path and put the DLLs in the same directory as the service. - Mark Koss, Loren wrote:

Okay, I now know how to attach to a process - cool! Thanks for that.. However, it looks like when I comment out the following:

Regex expression(strMask);

The service can start and I can attach and run through it, but if I uncomment it (which is what I need to do), essentially it IMMEDIATELY fails with a ERROR 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. Is it possible that its not finding the proper libraries or a permissions problem is happening?

Thanks

Loren

-----Original Message----- From: Mark Sizer [mailto:yg-boost-users@m.gmane.org] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 6:48 PM To: boost-users@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Boost-Users] Re: Regex in a service..

Yes, you can debug it. After starting the service, open the Task Manager and get the process ID. Then type "msdev -p <pid>" on a command line.

If the error happens too quickly (e.g. on startup), put an infinite loop at the very start and break out of it with the debugger.

int i=1; while (i > 0 );

is my favorite. Just change i to zero and everything starts going as normal (just don't forget to take it out!).

Good Luck, - Mark

P.S. I'm using regex in a service and it's working fine (at least I assume it is, nothing noticably bad has happened). MSVC 6, boost_1_30_0, W2K AS and W2K Pro.

Koss, Loren wrote:

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John,

Thanks for the response. How do you deal with breakpoints within a

service?

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I'm compiling then starting the service from the service control manager. Will I still be able to debug it?

...

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I seem to be having a difficult time using the Regex class in a service. It works wonderfully in a regular app. Can anyone help me out.. Basically, instantiating a regex class raises an exception. Any thoughts?

Not unless you can tell me what exception and where - if you're using the

vc

...

ide then set it to break on OS and C++ exceptions.

John.

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