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Can an application built on a PC with LabVIEW 7 be installed on a MAC?

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I have been asked to install the app I've just written which is basically a fancy VISA serial-port interface on the customer's MAC. However, I only have experience of PCs and I have built the application on a PC, and we only have PC versions of LabVIEW here...I can't seem to find this info on the ni.com developerzone.

 

Also - if this is possible, does a MAC handle COM ports in the same way as a PC?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

David

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First you need the MAC version of LV and a MAC to build an application for a MAC.

 

Since you are using VISA I think, but have no experience with it, that it works the same. The alias-File should translate the VISA resource ASLRx::INSTR into the correct system port name. You must really use the VISA resource names in your program and not the system names. Using COM1 for the Serial Port Init.vi will perhaps fail on a MAC.

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Thanks Waldemar,

 

not the answer I had hoped for, but was what I suspected - thanks for the info.


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Hi, David,

 

Another possible way is using virtualization software, like VMware, then run native Windows application under MacOS (but not all hardware will be available, of course).

 

Andrey.

 

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