D-Bus equivalent for Windows

Question

Anyone know of a Linux/D-Bus sort of mechanism for Windows?

Thanks

score 36 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '09 at 12:44

36

Choose your poison:

The following IPC mechanisms are supported by Windows:

Clipboard

COM

Data Copy

DDE

File Mapping

Mailslots

Pipes

RPC

Windows Sockets

The closest to DBus is COM.

answered Jan 27 '09 at 12:44

artificialidiot

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Will windows apps ever standardise on a single RPC/MQ system? – CMCDragonkai Jul 23 '14 at 05:22
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@CMCDragonkai COM has been the defacto standard as long as I can remember. – Tim Seguine Apr 07 '18 at 17:28

score 31 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 16 '16 at 10:10

31

The reference D-Bus implementation natively supports Windows. Previously, the WinDBus project could be used. There is no need for equivalents if you want to use D-Bus.

edited Jul 16 '16 at 10:10

Tritium21

answered Jan 08 '10 at 17:59

Ioan

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Does it really support well enough to be used for production software? The link in your answer states "a port to Windows is in progress." (as of 2020/02/20) – Étienne Feb 20 '20 at 08:42
They are making progress! Today on the same link I can read: `the port to Windows is mostly finished.` – Kiruahxh Jul 12 '22 at 15:17

score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 11 '18 at 23:43

9

edited Aug 11 '18 at 23:43

mirh

answered Apr 29 '14 at 22:17

user3587151

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