Building an Installer for a Licensed LabVIEW Application

[Jervin Justin]

Introduction

Once you have added the license checks to your application's source code (block diagram), the next step is to build the application and create an installer. You can do this using LabVIEW's Application Builder as usual, making sure to include the license file and licensing VIs as part of the installer

Step by Step Instructions

In addition to the basic steps of creating an executable and installer using App Builder, you also need to make sure that you distribute:

• The Licensing VIs (TPLA VIs)
• Your License File

Including Licencing VIs

In your Application (EXE) Build Spec, make sure that the TPLA VIs are included:

1. Under Source File Settings, set the Destination to Support Directory
   
   
2. In the Preview tab, generate a preview to make sure that the VIs are included
   

Including License File

In your Installer Build Spec, make sure that the license file in being distributed to the location specified by your application's block diagram.
A good location to put this is in the [Public App Data] folder.

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