imaq.dll not found

[dsavir]

Hi all,

We have a program that acquires images from a camera. We use LV 8.5 and NI-IMAQ. It worked wonderfully until today, when after installation in a customer's computer, the customer tried to run it and got the message "imaq.dll not found" and asked the user to find it.

What is this dll, and why was the program easily able to find it before?  Can I just insert imaq.dll into my project so it will have to include it in the installer? If not, does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Danielle

[MikeS81]

Hi Danielle,

did you install all necessary drivers, like NI-IMAQ x.y?

Mike

[dsavir]

Hi Mike,

do I need to install the drivers on the customer's computer? Isn't Labview supposed to add all "dependencies" automatically?

Thanks,

Danielle

[MikeS81 · Accepted solution]

Hi Danielle,

NI-IMAQ is a driver, which you have to install separately. If you build an application and then an installer from it, then you can add NI-IMAQ as additional software.

Mike

[dsavir]

Thanks,

I'll give it a try!

Danielle

[dsavir]

Hi,

I tried adding NI-IMAQ in the "additional installers" when building the installer, but it asks for an element I don't have "NI vision 8.5.1. Acquisition Software, Disk 1".

Is there another way to include these drivers in my installer?

Thanks!

[NAKeel]

Hi Danielle,

You can download the Vision Acquisition software from ni.com. This includes NI-IMAQ.  That way you will have the source files you need when you go to create your installer.  The link is:

NI Vision Acquisition Software 8.6 - Windows 2000/Vista x64/Vista x86/XP

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1099/lang/en

Nick Keel 

Applications Engineering 

National Instruments

[dsavir]

Thanks!!!