Stand alone application with VISA

[Ronald]

Hi,

I made a simple VI which contains some VISA serial communications for
communication with a standard RS232 port. When I make an executable of it
and install it on another machine (same platform) it doesn't work, because
it doesn't seem to find any com-port.

Can't I use VISA in this way?

Ron@ld

[LucaP.]

Hi Ronald

It's important to know, that the application builder doesn't include any driver VI's (NI-DAQ, NI-488.2 and so on) in the executable. You have to install them separately on the target machine.
In your case: Install NI-VISA on your target machine too.

Hope this helps.

Luca

[BrandonS]

Just to point out, there is also a NI-VISA run-time engine that is smaller than the full NI-VISA. These can be found at the following address: http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/webcategories/85256410006C055586256BAC002C51FA?opendocument&node=132070_US