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daemon: Add support for running as a service on win32

Patrick Gaskin requested to merge pgaskin/pulseaudio:pgaskin/win32-service into master

This MR adds support for natively running PA as a service on Windows. The state is stored in the common app data (ProgramData) folder with DACLs for having similar behavior as other platforms. See https://pgaskin.net/pulseaudio-win32/.

Is this suitable for inclusion in PulseAudio?

  • Minimal implementation of --system on win32.
  • Wrap main with a Windows Service on win32 (with a fallback to running it directly).
  • Update PA_SYSTEM_{RUNTIME,STATE,CONFIG}_PATH and HOME dynamically on Windows (overrides the build config, similar to the existing config path replacement logic).
  • Add DACLs for directories created by system daemon.

Requires !546 (merged).

Edited by Patrick Gaskin

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