LabVIEW FPGA OS headache

[Intaris]

I have a Win 10 VM with LabVIEW 2019 installed and I wanted to add the ISE 14.7 compile tools.

Fine, NIPM installed it, but no matter what I do, LabVIEW will not let me do anything which requires the tool. It gives me an error window saying the ISE 14.7 installation cannot be detected, that I should use NIPM to install it..... unsupported OS yada yada yada.  It's weird because I also have ISE 14.7 installed on my normal PC, also Win10 and there I get errors when creating support files for IPCores, but otherwise it works fine.

Do I really have to switch back to Win7 to work in parallel with Vivado and ISE 14.7 in LV 2019?

[Terry_ALE]

ISE 14.7 isn't supported in Windows 10, see

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019XnDSAU&l=en-US

Some features will sometimes work in Windows 10 but it isn't guaranteed. I believe ISE came out before Windows 10.

[Intaris]

I understand that and am familiar with the C++ compiler workaround (Mini-GW) for certain cases.

But I can't even get LabVIEW to recognise it as being installed, even though NIPM says its installed. I can't even get to the point of having incompatibilities currently. On other Win 10 machines, it works up to creation of simulation files for Xilinx IPCores. But on this machine, absolutely nothing. NIPM and LabVIEW are of very different opinions as to what is even installed.....

[JGar]

What I've had to do in the past is install the ISE tools on a Windows 7 machine and then copy the Xilinx 14_7 folder located in C:\NIFPGA\programs from the Windows 7 machine to my Windows 10 machine.  Also, I had to install the latest version of MinGW on the Windows 10 machine (which you mentioned before).  Everything worked fine after doing that.  I've done this process for LabVIEW 2019 as well with no problems.

[Intaris]

Did you ever have the message that the installation of the 14.7 could not be detected?

[JGar]

No.  I never saw that message.