> > > I've built the last C version of elog in git, revision 1ebfd06c using mingw-64 ; the resulting binaries work for me on Windows 2019.
> > > Attached is a zip file with the binaries.
> > > I was not able to create a new installer, these are just the executables
> > 
> > I tried to just exchange the attached binaries in my installation but this didn't worked.
> > elogd was not able to start.
> 
> hmmm strange - did you get an error message or did the binary simply not start?  I've only tested this on a single Windows machine....

Error message is:

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

I have to admit that I'm doing all this on a Server 2012 machine.