How to read windows processes from golang (without going crazy)

Need a list of all windows processes? Or need the PID of a specific process, but you've only got a name?

How it works

This repository shows the main parts needed to get a process list:

• Create a snapshot of the current windows process list using CreateToolhelp32Snapshot.
• Fetch the first process in the snapshot list with Process32First.
• Keep iterating with Process32Next, until you get the ERROR_NO_MORE_FILES error, which is your cue to finish.

Installation

go get github.com/denisbrodbeck/how2readwindowsprocesses

On Windows you can build it directly with go build main.go.

On Linux/OSX you need to target the correct environment:

GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -o bin/processes.exe  main.go
# or
GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build -o bin/processes.exe  main.go

If you are missing dependencies, you can install them with dep:

cd "$GOPATH/src/github.com/denisbrodbeck/how2readwindowsprocesses"
dep init

Credits

See MSDN doc for way more info on this subject. Thanks go to fluter's hints and xian's answer on SO.

License

The Unlicense. Please have a look at the LICENSE.md for more details.