LabVIEW App File Name

[paul_a_cardinale]

For Windows, it's named "labview.exe".

For Mac, it's named "LabVIEW.app".

What's the name for Unix?

Bonus question: I can't find the answer on a web search.  Obviously I'm not enter the correct thing in the search field.  What should I enter?

[rolfk · Accepted solution]

Do you mean the LabVIEW property value or the actual physical name on disk?

While you would indeed see "LabVIEW.app" in the Finder on the Mac, it is really just a bundle. That is factually a folder with quite an involved directory structure inside for resources, private shared libraries and the actual executable file and with all the binary resources for potentially multiple platform architectures such as Intel x64 and ARM64 currently, but in the past it could also contain PPC compiled resources. It can even contain multiple versions of these binary compiled resources and special naming conventions and internal symlinks allow the Finder to locate the appropriate version and architecture for the current platform. Except for the multiplatform feature most of this seems however quite overengineered and not really used in the wild.

On my Ubuntu 22.04 system with LabVIEW 2025 Q3 installed the according property returns: labviewprofull

In /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2025-64 is the actual executable file with that name, but also a symlink called labview pointing at that executable.

I'm not sure what the name would be for the community edition, but it seems very likely that it would be different! Or the evalution version, or ....!

However the location of this install does not have to be at that location, it depends on system settings for the package manager where it will put such applications and in true Linux manner, a user always can decide otherwise too when going on the command line to install things.

There for sure will also exist differences between Linux distributions and versions. It's all so much fun with Linux. 😁

[paul_a_cardinale]

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@rolfk wrote:

Do you mean the LabVIEW property value or the actual physical name on disk?

While you would indeed see "LabVIEW.app" in the Finder on the Mac, it is really just a bundle. That is factually a folder with quite an involved directory structure inside for resources, private shared libraries and the actual executable file and with all the binary resources for potentially multiple platform architectures such as Intel x64 and ARM64 currently, but in the past it could also contain PPC compiled resources. It can even contain multiple versions of these binary compiled resources and special naming conventions and internal symlinks allow the Finder to locate the appropriate version and architecture for the current platform. Except for the multiplatform feature most of this seems however quite overengineered and not really used in the wild.

On my Ubuntu 22.04 system with LabVIEW 2025 Q3 installed the according property returns: labviewprofull

In /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2025-64 is the actual executable file with that name, but also a symlink called labview pointing at that executable.

I'm not sure what the name would be for the community edition, but it seems very likely that it would be different! Or the evalution version, or ....!

However the location of this install does not have to be at that location, it depends on system settings for the package manager where it will put such applications and in true Linux manner, a user always can decide otherwise too when going on the command line to install things.

There for sure will also exist differences between Linux distributions and versions. It's all so much fun with Linux. 😁

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Thank you.  I was looking for the actual file name.