How to call a Labview geneted dll without labview runtime engine

[Victor King]

Hi,

I generated a DLL using Labview. It's only a few hundred KB.

When I run the application built in Fortran, I was asked to install the Labview runtime engine, which is roughly 100MB.

Is there any way to use this DLL  without installing the Labview runtime engine?

Or can we build an application-specific runtime engine that is much smaller in size for ease of distribution?

Best regards,

Victor King

[mikeporter]

Unfortunately, the answers to your two questions are (in order): No and No.

You still need the runtime engine - which is not "trimable"

Mike...

[Victor King]

Hi, Mike,

Is there any special reason that Labview does not allow us to trim the runtime engine?

I do not think this is technically impossible.

Or because this functionality is not necessary?

Best regards,

Victor King

[Dennis_Knutson]

Is 100 MB really unreasonable these days? I just did a check and it seems that the .NET 3.5 runtime is twice as large. The LabVIEW runtime will easily fit onto a CD and if you do electronic transfer and don't want to distribute it with the app, the end user could just download it from NI.

[Coq_Rouge]

You may look at the import table for this dll. The import table will tell you which other DLLs who i called by this dll. These DLL may again call others DLLs. But you can try this tool http://www.dependencywalker.com/ 

good luck