Building Source Distribution fails but building an Application from same source does not

[RTSLVU]

I am trying to build a source code distribution for my current project.

The build fails with a message about not being able to find all of the VI's called out in my program...

BUT I can build my application just fine!

What's going on? Why can't it find all the VI's?

[Kevin_Price]

I don't *think* that's the same error message I've gotten, but there's an issue I've seen when building a source distribution and selecting "preserve disk hierarchy".  I think that's the setting where the "\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\..." hierarchy gets replicated underneath the root of your source destination.  If your source destination already has several layers of nested folders, it becomes increasingly possible to exceed Windows' string length limit for a path, which I think might be something like 255.

One way around it is to use a CMD or PowerShell window to use the SUBST command to mount a virtual drive letter at the source destination so you can then just reference the drive letter and save a bunch of characters in your path string.   For example:

SUBST Z: "C:\Windows\Users\KevinP\Documents\LabVIEW Projects\ProjectName\Source Distribution"

-Kevin P

[paul_cardinale]

This can happen if you have a diagram disable structure, and inside a disabled case there is a missing VI.

The app builds OK because it doesn't need anything in the disabled cases; but the source distribution wants everything.