Building EXEs and Installers from command line

[Alex W]

Is there a way to build an EXE and installer (via Application Builder) through the command line? It looks like it is possible, but I haven't been able to find the commands to accomplish this. We will be adding some .NET components to our LabView application, and I'd like to be able to: - Compile .NET code - Execute Unit tests - Compile LV code (using new .NET assemblies) - Package LV application I know I can control all of this through a VI, but I'd rather not maintain my build process in LabView.

[Guruthilak]

There is an example that ships with labVIEw. here is the path

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2010\examples\project\programmatically build\Build Targets via Command Line.vi

Guru

[Alex W]

I don't have that example installed, but it looks like the best solution is to build an executable that wraps BuildTargetBuildSpecification.

[Jonathan_S1]

Alex,

This KB has some info on this, let me know if it helps!

http://ae.natinst.com/public.nsf/web/searchinternal/0413bd4f4bff32f086256e4a007c7a60

Jon

[Alex W]

Is that an internal resource?  I'm not able to reach that address (DNS can't resolve it).

[Thør]

Sorry about the broken link.  Here is the correct one:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/0413BD4F4BFF32F086256E4A007C7A60?OpenDocument