How should one develop vi's for different platforms?

[ckis]

Hello everybody,

I'd like to know a reliable and straight forward method to develop vi's to be used on different platforms. Do I have to expect any problems when compiling the vi's for linux, then for windows and back again for linux too often? Or would it be more reliable for example to keep the source vi's maybe on linux, then compile a copy for windows and port the changes back to linux manually?

Is there an official guideline from NI for multi platform development? Unfortunately I couldn't find one up to now.

Thanks for your help!

[Christian Mergl]

Hey,

As long as you adhare the following you can copy the VIs from one platform to the other as often you want:

- don't use platform-specific code, e.g. ActiveX, DLLs, ....

- take care with the path syntax (use path controls instead of strings)

- don't copy your VIs without Blockdiagramm

Christian