Webservice for Mac/OS, Linux

[Andreas-Zeiner]

Hi everybody!

We are using the Webservices of Labview very extensively and are pretty happy with this new functionallity, although recently we had a client who requested

to access some services via http on a mac based environment. I was surprised when i found out that OS X is not supported for webservices (the same with linux). We had to hack around and found some solutions which were acceptabled but not really elegant, so what i think is that it would be great to have webservices besides windows at least on linux and OS X available. This feature will be used a lot in the future and it would be a pitty if you have only half of the labview capabilities on some systems.

Thanks a lot Andy

[MaximeR]

I will enjoy to have this functionnality in LabVIEW for Linux. No clear documentation for the moment that is not supported. Certainly link to the fact that Shared Variables are not supported : Support Shared Variables on Linux - NI Community

[bhpowell]

I realize it's hard for NI to support lots of variations of web servers and Linux distros, so I'd settle for instructions on how to make LabVIEW web services available on Linux even if I have to jump through some hoops and/or are restricted to certain servers such as nginx or Apache.

After all, LabVIEW has always been more about "making the impossible possible", and "making the possible easy" always came later. 🙂

[sth]

How about this being one of the things to open source.  The basic glue to wed it to a particular distro or server platform could be a great place for collaboration with the community.  NI can still hide their internals with locked VIs an just leave the API?