Is there a good method for programmaticaly creating executables? In my search I have stumbled across a few different approaches.
The first one is the OpenG builder and another method was using a VI that actually added a Build Specification to the project and filled in all the properties to create the desired executable (I attached this VI).
Before I began to seriously dig into either of these methods I just wanted to see if there is some preferred way of doing this, there may even be some other methods that I haven't found yet, or maybe there are some VI's out there that somebody has built that is better than the one I have posted here.
I will give a brief explanation of my primary use:
So we have a certain type of application that we use to communicate with the IC's that we develop here at my company. Everytime we develop a new IC a new application needs to be built to talk to it, not only one acutally but two: one for our internal use, and then one for our customer's use. The applications that are built to communicate with the IC's are very similar from one IC to the next, however there are differences in the inputs to Application Builder such as:
Build Specification Name
Target Filename
Destination Directory
and more...
So what I would like to do, is have some kind of a form, maybe in excel or something that I fill out that has all the paramaters needed to build an executable. Then have a VI that reads in the excel sheet and spits out an executable. This would be extremely helpful, I have noticed that the Application builder is a bit buggy, I have had to re-enter all of the information into those forms many times, that is a big pain - I am hoping this method wil be able to avoid that hassle.
I am currently using LabVIEW 8.5
Thanks for all your help!
