it is possible to run dagster as a service in windows, as per the discussion you posted. Would recommend following that guide, is there a particular piece there that you’re having trouble with? I don’t think you can run dagster as a service anywhere without installing other programs, as you need at least some program to manage the deployment of dagster.
With regards to loading a module, it sounds like you actually want to just load a single python file? You can’t load a module without installing it. If you want to point at a specific file, you can point a code location at a
python_file
, per the docs link you posted for configuring code locations