LabVIEW
Read Excel file on macOS
Did you look at the thread? The VI in there does not use ActiveX, nor DLLs. So it should work on any LabVIEW platform. Sure it is a hacky way but probably the best you can get without involving to call external shared libraries or such, which are always a hassle across platforms in one way or the other.
@altenbach wrote:
@rolfk wrote:
Did you look at the thread? The VI in there does not use ActiveX, nor DLLs. So it should work on any LabVIEW platform.
Yes, for reading excel files. The follow-up question was about writing excel files, so that might be more difficult.
Well 😀, it’s a “bit” of work! You just need to read the according Microsoft spec, understand how XML works, create the according documents with interlinking in a directory and ZIP everything up into an archive with xlsx file extension.
Not really rocket science but I would admit that it's a project of somewhere between 1 month and 1 man year of development work, depending how hacky or good you want to make it.
An investment of merely 10k to 100k of development work that everybody only wants to use if it is for free. So yes the likelihood that it exists is about 0%.
https://dataahead.de/en/xlr8-labview-toolkit-2/ Might be halfway to that already.
But: it uses NPOI for the heavy XML lifting, which is a .Net library. .Net 8.0 is partly supported on LabVIEW 2025 but might be not enough for use with this library. And I’m not sure if .Net 8 support is enabled in the unofficial LabVIEW 2025Q1 for Mac release.
