How to setup "svnserve --service" to run on Windows?

windows service svnserve
dmitry_bond picture dmitry_bond · Apr 29, 2013 · Viewed 13.6k times · Source

When starting from cmdline 

svnserve.exe -d -r d:\svn\mytools

all working fine.

Then I had tried to set it up to run as Windows service:

@echo off
set SvnHome=C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN
set SvnRepository=D:\Svn\mytools
sc delete SvnMyTools
sc create SvnMyTools binPath= "%SvnHome%\bin\svnserve.exe --service -r %SvnRepository%" start=   delayed-auto type= share

service was installed but it is unable to start. All the time it is reporting an error

Error 1083: The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service.

I have tried to edit service cmdline using regedit, so tried to add double quotes arround ref to exe, tried to change cmdline parameters (used -d instead of --service, used both -d and --service) and so on. Sometimes reported errors are looks a bit different but it does not work anyway. :-(

Question is - how to setup it to make it working as service on Windows 7 x64? Is it possible at all? I mean - if that "--service" cmdline switch is able to work in svnserve?

Note: svnserve version is 1.7.9 (r1462340). Rest of TortoiseSVN components are 1.7.12.24070.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

Hans picture Hans · Aug 30, 2018

It took me a while to figure out that the selected answer was not final, but a supplement to the question. This is the final one line command to execute:

sc create svnserve binpath="\"C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\svnserve.exe\" --service -r D:\Repositories" displayname="Subversion Server" depend=Tcpip start=auto

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