Labview 2009 2012 compatibility

[gdw123]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if a LV exe is installed as a 2012 version using a LV built installer, then LV 2009 itself is installed - if this will affect the 2012 files that have been installed or are the two installs completely independent of each other? Thanks

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

The LabVIEW versions themselves are seperate.  It is all of the drivers you have to be careful of.

[Sam_Sharp]

Are you talking about built executables using the runtime engine? You can have multiple different versions of the LabVIEW runtime engine installed alongside each other (and even the LabVIEW development environment - I have 2012, 2013 and 2014 installed on mine). The only thing that you might run into problems with is if you need older versions of drivers - you can't have two different versions of drivers installed on the same machine (e.g. DAQmx, NI-VISA etc.), but it shouldn't cause you any problems.

[gdw123]

Thanks both. The drivers I think should be constant. So these shouldn't have changed - Yes it is the runtime install. Thanks again.