Command-line build using Labview 8.0

[PLEXSYS]

My company is trying to automate builds from a single machine (nightly builds). This requires an unassisted (read scripted/command-line) build for LabVIEW executables (currently we are building manually). LabVIEW 7.1.1 and prior didn't really offer this and i was needing to know if LabVIEW 8.0 has added this functionality.

[Tyler]

The functionality that you want is not directly supported by either LabVIEW version, however, with 7.1 & 7.0 there is an option to get this to work. You can actually build an exe using the command prompt. This means that you will need to create a batch file with the appropriate commands and set the system to run the batch file at a particular time every night. Here is the link to the knowledge base that explains how to do this.

This should get you up an running for applications build with 7.1 and earlier. With LV 8.0 there were a lot of changes done to the app builder and I have not been able to find any way to control it from the command prompt. Hope this helps!!

Tyler H.

[rolfk]

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@PLEXSYS wrote:
My company is trying to automate builds from a single machine (nightly builds). This requires an unassisted (read scripted/command-line) build for LabVIEW executables (currently we are building manually). LabVIEW 7.1.1 and prior didn't really offer this and i was needing to know if LabVIEW 8.0 has added this functionality.

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For pre-LabVIEW 8 you could take a look at the OpenG Builder.

It is basically yet a different application builder around the LabVIEW core functionality that does the actual building. Since the OpenG Builder is distributed in source code it is not a very difficult (although possibly laberous) exercise to call the specific functions necessary in your own scripted or otherwise controlled LabVIEW application that would allow you to do some sort of batch processing.

The folks at OpenG are looking into possibilities to extend the OpenG Builder for LabVIEW 8 but it is a quite involved change.

Rolf Kalbermatter