how should I move a LabVIEW project to another computer?

[Yamaeda]

I assume you have your project in a folder with its .lvproj and the like, then Zip it and unpack it on the new computer. Tools and stuff needs to be installed, but should be handled by NIPM and VIPM (mainly).

[Walker34]

Just do a ZIP of your project folder as said before.

Or maybe, in project, do a file->Save as... and then choose "with dependencies".

I don't know why the other people are triggering you with Source Control. That's not the standard way to copy files to another computer!

But some dev softwares like SolidWorks, have a nice functionality called "Pack and Go". It will load all dependencies in a zip and rearrange paths in project to match new files location. That's very smart to move a project with this tool. I would appreciate it in LabView!

[alexderjuengere]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

I assume you have your project in a folder with its .lvproj and the like, then Zip it and unpack it on the new computer.

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I strongly recommend using 7-zip....

[santo_13]

OP said he no longer has LabVIEW on the computer that has the source code, this makes the work tricky as one need to treat it as plain files.

I am wondering, why not install the latest LabVIEW in evaluation mode and do a save-as or source export, then, port to the new computer.

[Yamaeda]

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@alexderjuengere wrote:

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@Yamaeda wrote:

I assume you have your project in a folder with its .lvproj and the like, then Zip it and unpack it on the new computer.

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I strongly recommend using 7-zip....

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I agree, it's great. I usually use it to make zip-files, it's faster and with better compression than the standard.

[alexderjuengere]

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@santo_13 wrote:

The right way is to maintain these on Source Code Control (like Git, SVN etc.,)

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of course.

I prefer Git, respectively, gitlab, because it does need to be setup in the labview IDE>options>source control

fun fact: you can use git's clone mechanism or just copy your repository as a .zip....

when hardware is involved, which it probably is, you may also look into  system images , and labview installers, which can be made via labviews application builder or since 2022 via labview package builder