LabVIEW
LabView API to perform Deploy Target Setting instead of Menu GUI
I don't think there is a public API for this. This is functionality of the realtime project provider that collects all kind of project specific settings mostly related to the according Build Specification.
Well there seems to be something:
Project::Deploy Items
But it's going to take some serious trial and error to get that working as you will need to enumerate the correct Project Items to pass to that method.
@Pashan wrote:
Question is, how do I create an EXE file which will run on Host PC to perform "Deploy Target Setting" as it is doing from IDE Menu?
Short answer: you can't!
Longer answer: It has nothing to do with the fact that you want to deploy to a real-time system. But everything with the fact that this method is not supported in the runtime system. Same effect but not the same reason.
Even longer answer: It's possible but only if you have a full LabVIEW IDE installation. Your EXE then can remotely connect to the LabVIEW IDE and invoke that method in there through VI Server. But the question here is of course: Why do that and not just invoke the VI directly in the LabVIEW IDE?
@rolfk wrote:
@Pashan wrote:
Question is, how do I create an EXE file which will run on Host PC to perform "Deploy Target Setting" as it is doing from IDE Menu?
Short answer: you can't!
Longer answer: It has nothing to do with the fact that you want to deploy to a real-time system. But everything with the fact that this method is not supported in the runtime system. Same effect but not the same reason.
Even longer answer: It's possible but only if you have a full LabVIEW IDE installation. Your EXE then can remotely connect to the LabVIEW IDE and invoke that method in there through VI Server. But the question here is of course: Why do that and not just invoke the VI directly in the LabVIEW IDE?
Not sure if this helps, but you can upload built binaries to the cRIO target without LabVIEW. If by "deploy" you mean uploading binary files, then yes, that is possible.
In my setup, I have a cRIO with both Real-Time and FPGA components (a cRIO-9054, to be exact), along with a desktop PC running a LabVIEW-built application. In the application, I added buttons for both "Upgrade FPGA Firmware" and "Upgrade RT Firmware".
To upgrade the FPGA firmware, I simply call the NI tool:
C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\NI-RIO\RioDeviceSetup.exe
This allows the user to select the firmware binaries and upload them to the FPGA.
For the RT part, I use the System Configuration API (Palette) to initialize a session. From there, you can install components from a built IPK file (which first needs to be uploaded via WebDAV, as far as I remember) and retrieve a list of the components currently installed on the RT target programmatically, and so on
