LabVIEW run-time engine

[ondal]

Hello, I'm using LabVIEW 8.5 professional Development System and would like to learn various options to deploy VI's
to systems that doesn't have the development system.

Specifically,
I could create a standalone application that runs with the run-time installed, but I couldn't find a way to do something like this:

   labview my.vi

In other words, I'd like to know if there is an executable freely distributable that can run "plain" VI's.

Older documents mention something like lvrt.exe, but the instructions doesn't match at all with the LabVIEW 8.5 menus.
Thanks.

[mikeporter]

I haven't figured out how to create an executable without a VI attached to it as you could create in V7 and before, but any built executable can run plain VIs.

Mike...

[tst]

I don't have LabVIEW 8.x, so I can't say how this would work with the 8.x application builder, but before that you could just build an application without specifying any top level VI.

In any case, all you really need to do to make this work is write a small VI which will accept a command line argument of the path to your VI (see the example finder (Help>>Find Examples) for an example of how to use these) and then does an Open VI Reference followed by a Run VI method. You might also need to set its FP to be open, but that's about it really.

Just be aware that you need to enable support for command line arguments when you build the application.

[ondal]

Thank you both. I guess I'll follow your suggestion.