Can a Windows LabVIEW executable be run on a Linux platform? How?

[atmorrison]

I would like to run a LabVIEW 8.0 executable build under Windows 2000 on a Linux platform.  I downloaded and installed the LabVIEW runtime engine for Linux from the NI site and transferred the executable.  When I try to run it, the system wants to know what program to use.  There doesn't seem to be anything from NI on the list and I couldn't find any likely candidates browsing.

Any hints.

Thanks,

-Todd

[Dennis_Knutson]

You cannot just transfer the exe. You have to buy the Linux version of LabVIEW with it's app builder and create a new exe. The LabVIEW source code is portable (except for the windows only functions) but the exe files are not. An exe is OS specific. This is true of other programs as well. You cannot simply transfer i.e. Word for Windows over to a Linux box.

[atmorrison]

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for the confirmation - I feared as much, but it seemed worth checking.

-Todd

[tst]

You can also trying running Windows executables on emulators like Wine, but I have no experience with Linux, so I don't know how well that would work. Also, I'm guessing that it won't work if you're using hardware.