LabVIEW: How do you create a DLL

[Mikef]

Can someone point me to a procedure where we can create a DLL file using Labview.

  We need a SCPI (similar to GPIB) Open, Read, Write, Close as a DLL in Labview that I can call for testing using TestStand.

Idleally, I would like it to allow a faceplate for manual testing, but also answer to a call from TestStand as a DLL.

Mike

[billko]

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@Mikef wrote:

Can someone point me to a procedure where we can create a DLL file using Labview.

  We need a SCPI (similar to GPIB) Open, Read, Write, Close as a DLL in Labview that I can call for testing using TestStand.

Idleally, I would like it to allow a faceplate for manual testing, but also answer to a call from TestStand as a DLL.

Mike

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Is there some reason you can't use LabVIEW VIs directly in TestStand?

[SunshineDesign]

If you have application builder license, setup under build specification to make a shared library (DLL). It builds all the partds needed for a DLL (header, dll etc.).

Not sure you have to have it for what you are doing, but there it is.

[Dennis_Knutson]

And what the heck is a faceplate? Do you mean a front panel? If so, then you have to manually change the setting to remove all front panels.

[billko]

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@Dennis_Knutson wrote:

And what the heck is a faceplate? Do you mean a front panel? If so, then you have to manually change the setting to remove all front panels.

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Sigh... while we are at it, SCPI is not at all similar to GPIB, although an instrument may use SCPI commands over GPIB.  I sense a huge learning curve up ahead...  😞