LabVIEW 2013: Source distribution, destination path for post build VI changed?

[SteenSchmidt]

Hi,

In a source distribution for an embedded target (Real-Time for instance) you specify both "Local destination directory" and "Target destination directory". Let's say the local directory is "C:\MyProject\MyModules\", and the target directory is "C:\" for instance. Then on my build machine my source distribution will end up in "C:\MyProject\MyModules\c\<source distrib files>", and I can then FTP everything from <source distrib files> to the root of my target's c-drive (or in some cases I can just deploy directly after the build, and LabVIEW will move the files to the target for me).

You can also specify a Post Build VI that can do stuff to your source distribution after the build has completed. Such a Post Build VI has an input named "Destination Path" for use inside your Post Build VI, so you can find your files to operate on 🙂

In LabVIEW versions prior to 2013 this destination path would be "C:\MyProject\MyModules\c\", but in LabVIEW 2013 the destination path is only "C:\MyProject\MyModules\" thus missing the target destination directory part. Now my Post Build VI can no longer find my source distribution files, unless I inside that VI hardcode the target destination directory - and that isn't a good solution.

Is this changed by design in LabVIEW 2013, or is it a bug?

Cheers,

Steen

[mikeporter]

I don't do a lot of (actually any) source distributions of embedded files, but I can tell you that there was a bug in earlier versions where during an application build, the destination path was reported incorrectly. Perhaps this is related.

Mike...