LabVIEW runtime 2019 or 2021 on Macos Monterey

[HassanAftab]

Hi,

LabVIEW runtime does not seem to supported for MacOS 12.0 and above. Is there a way around to run it on mac a macOS?

Best,

Hassan

[rolfk]

That's totally expected! MacOS X and later has always been tricky for applications to support in a version that was released before the according OS version was released. Apple likes to change things in ways that old applications simply can not even anticipate beforehand.

LabVIEW as a full programming environment is especially vulnerable to this kind of sheenigan as it sometimes has to do things that Apple would have applications rather not even try to do.

Conclusion: A LabVIEW version released before a particular OS version has always the potential to not work. On Windows this is less apparent since Microsoft puts backwards compatibility rather high on their list of priorities. Apple on the other hand has no problems about changing APIs and low level mechanisms on a whim if they feel so and let the application developers deal with the problems.