D-Bus equivalent for Windows

Question

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

Thanks

Answer 1

Choose your poison:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574%28VS.85%29.aspx

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

windbus is now part of the official DBus releases, see: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/#windowsport