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LabVIEW generate application (exe) and installer

2022-06-25 07:18:00 【InfoQ】

Use LabVIEW A written program often needs to be taken to the target computer to run , How to transplant the program from the development computer to the target computer ？ There are two ways ：

1、 Install... On the target computer LabVIEW And related drivers and toolkits , And then vi Or copy the whole project to the target computer . However, installation LabVIEW And various toolkits will be more time-consuming , And vi It can be modified at will , Easy to cause misoperation , If you just run the program , This method is not recommended .

2、 take LabVIEW The program is compiled on the development computer to generate an independent executable program （exe）, Then transplant the executable program to the target computer , The transplantation here is divided into two ways ：

The generated exe Copy to the target computer , Then install... Separately on the target computer LabVIEW Run the engine and the required drivers and toolkits , Installing drivers and toolkits in this method also takes a lot of time , Not recommended .

The generated exe And some used components installer, The installer , Then run the installer on the target computer , After this installation , It was generated before exe、LabVIEW The running engine and other toolkits will be automatically installed on the target computer , This method is relatively simple to transplant , Is the most commonly used method .

There are two points to note before explaining ：

1、 Build installer （installer） You have to be an application before （exe）.

2、 Program VI The file must be in the project , If it's just a single VI File cannot be generated , You need to create a new project , Import VI file , As shown in the figure below ：

1、 Build applications （exe）

The first 1 Step ： Open the project , Choose “ Program generation specification ”, Click on the right , choice “ newly build ”, newly build “ Applications EXE”, As shown in the figure below ：

The first 2 Step ： Fill in the product generation information , Include ： Generated name and path , As shown in the figure below ：

The first 3 Step ： Add source file , In the project VI file , Import into application （exe） Start of VI, As shown in the figure below ：

The first 4 Step ： Set icon , You can choose to download the material website or design it yourself .ico file , Here I use the icon file downloaded from the material website , As shown in the figure below ：

The first 5 Step ： Finally, you can click generate preview , View the path and file generated by preview , As shown in the figure below ：

The first 6 Step ： Build applications （exe）, As shown in the figure below ：

You can view the generated application in the project file （exe） file , You can also enter the generation path , Look at the relevant files , As shown in the figure below ：

Click on “LabVIEW Scientific calculator .exe” file , Can run the application smoothly .

2、 Build installer （installer）

Building applications （exe） The installer can be generated on the basis of （installer）了 .

The first 1 Step ： In project , Choose “ Program generation specification ”, Click on the right , choice “ newly build ”, newly build “ Erection sequence ”, As shown in the figure below ：

The first 2 Step ： Fill in the product generation information , Include ： Generated name and path , As shown in the figure below ：

The first 3 Step ： choice “ Source file ”, In the project file view, click to select the application build specification you created earlier , Then click the add arrow , Add the application to the destination folder , In the target view on the right, you can see the result of adding , Here's the picture

The first 4 Step ： choice “ Shortcut ”, Modify the shortcut name and subdirectory name on the right . The shortcut name corresponds to the name of the shortcut icon you will see in the start menu in the future , The subdirectory corresponds to the folder name where the shortcut is located in the start menu , As shown in the figure below ：

The first 5 Step ： choice “ Additional installer ”, Check the appropriate LabVIEW Run the engine and necessary drivers, toolkits, etc , Then these drivers and the toolkit will be included in the generated installer in .LabVIEW Some necessary... Will be automatically checked here NI Erection sequence , But it may not contain all the programs that need to be installed , What drivers and toolkits are used in the program at this time , When configuring here, you need to check which toolkits . As shown in the figure below ：

The first 6 Step ： Finally, generate the installer （installer）, As shown in the figure below ：

You can view the generated application in the project file （exe） And setup （installer file , You can also enter the generation path , Look at the relevant files , As shown in the figure below ：