>>> I am considering to use the couchdb in a standalone windows application. >>> Therefore i would like to simply bundle the couchdb with my application and >>> start/stop it from the application. So i would need to use the windows >>> binary but don't want to register any dlls/services etc.
You can relax - this seems pretty easy. caveats - I'm running as admin on my PC, I installed into d:/win32app/couchdb instead of the default. open up a cmd prompt: net stop "apache couchdb" pushd d:\win32app\couchdb\bin erl.exe -nohup -sasl errlog_type error -s couch [sit back and relax] btw for the windows service, can we have it registered as "CouchDB" or Apache_CouchDB instead of "Apache CouchDB" with a space? putting in those quotes each time bugs me...
