Unable to install labview in the new mac using the 'labview CD for Power Mac'

[souriraj]

I have got a 'Labview full development system for power macintosh'. I have to use labview for some application and so I tried installing labview in my imac using this CD. The CD gets ejected out by itself. I tried it in a Mac laptop. There it opened, but when I try to install it, it gave the following message: 'You can't open the application 'Install Labview' because the classic environment is no longer supported'. Please note that the macs that I used are Intel based.

What is the cause of this problem? What is the solution?

The version of the software is : 6.0

Please do the needful.

Thankyou,
Pavithra Souriraj

[johnsold]

The version you are trying to install was apparently written for Mac OS 9 or earlier, hence the reference to the Classic environment. The Classic environment is an emulation of OS 9 under OS X. However, Apple did not start using Intel processors until several years after the introduction of OS X, so they (Apple) did not develop an OS 9 emulator which will run on Intel based Macs.

You cannot run LV 6 on an Intel based Mac. This is an Apple issue, not a National Instruments issue. LV 6 runs fine under OS X on a PowerPC Mac, as do several other versions.

You will either need to get an older Mac or a newer version of LV. I am not sure which is the earliest version which will run on an Intel Mac.

Lynn

Using LV on the Mac since version 1.2

[NI-Bob]

Hello Pavithra,

Thank you for contacting National Instruments.  Please look at this article for your issue: Using LabVIEW and NI Hardware on Macintosh Computers with Intel x86 Architecture
This will give you more information about using LabVIEW on an Intel Architecture Mac.  I hope this helps!