What is minimum runtime engine size when installed on XP embedded OS

[Bernie W]

I hope to build move an existing Labview 8.6 application to a Windows XP embedded machine and would like to know if their are any tools available to help minimize the hard disk memory requirement, specifically can the runtime engine installation be micro managed so that absolutely nothing that is not required by the application is installed?

 If not, is their some way to install the runtime engine and then remove unused items, for instance one .dll file at a time?

I would appreciate any guidance.

Thanks,
Bernie

[Pnt]

No, you can not do anything.

Minimun run time engine is about 85 Mbytes.

To delete each dll that is not used is very difficult and dangerous. I would never do it.

[tst]

I believe NI does not officially support running LV apps on XPe, but if you search, you should find some references to it. In any case, I doubt you will find anything relating to the size of the RTE. You can probably safely remove some of the support files (e.g. language files, which take up some space), but I've never done it and it isn't necessarily safe.

In older versions, you could simply use all the files from the RTE folder if you didn't require any drivers, but I believe that doesn't work since ~8.0.

[Kevin_S]

Hi Bernie,

As previously mentioned, there is no way to really make the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine smaller than it already is.  This article explains a bit more on this topic: Reducing the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine Installer Size

Kevin S.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[Bernie W]

Thanks to all for your replies!