Will hardware drivers work with the run-time engine or only a full version of Labview?

[Neumannium]

Hello.

I'm trying to get a quatech I/O card to work. The instructions with the drivers we were given state "you must have labview installed before installing these drivers".

A program I wrote on my machine works fine with those drivers and does toggle outputs on the card, but when I build it into an executable on our test unit (doesn't have a full version of Labview, just the Run-Time engine) the card doesn't work.

We installed the run-time engine on the unit, then the drivers.

I guess my question is: Do most drivers work with both the full version of Labview and the run-time engine? Or do I need to somehow 'convert' these drivers to work with the run-time engine?

Th
anks for your help!

Dave Neumann
neumann2706@yahoo.com

[TommyB]

There is probably a dll file required for the high-level VI drivers. Make
sure that you include this dll with the distribution.
Hope this helps.
-Tom
"Neumannium" wrote in message
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> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to get a quatech I/O card to work. The instructions with
> the drivers we were given state "you must have labview installed
> before installing these drivers".
>
> A program I wrote on my machine works fine with those drivers and does
> toggle outputs on the card, but when I build it into an executable on
> our test unit (doesn't have a full version of Labview, just the
> Run-Time engine) the card doesn't work.
>
> We installed the run-time engine on the unit, then the drivers.
>
> I gue
ss my question is: Do most drivers work with both the full
> version of Labview and the run-time engine? Or do I need to somehow
> 'convert' these drivers to work with the run-time engine?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Dave Neumann
> neumann2706@yahoo.com

[Neumannium]

Tom,

Thanks for your reply. One of the problems I'm having is figuring out which .dll I would need to include (I'm not a software guy).

Would the .dll your speaking of be different than the one which is installed with the drivers? I'm looking at a .dll that is installed when you install the labview drivers for this card, but the run-time engine still doesn't want to get the card to work. (The file installed when I install the drivers is called 'daqlv32.dll' and I don't know how to find any other .dll's I might need)

Actually, it appears the card 'is' being seen by the run-time engine, but I'm getting impulses rather than distinct changes of state.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

Dave Neumann
d.neumann@astronautics.com

[TommyB]

Dave:
I can't determine which dll is required but if there are more than one that
shipped with the quatech I/O card try to placing one dll at a time in the
same directory as the exe so that you can determine which one is the
required one. If that doesn't do it then it may need more than jsut one of
the dlls so placing all that came with the quatech I/O card s/w driver
package in the same directory as the exe should do the trick.
Best of luck.
-Tom

"Neumannium" wrote in message
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> Tom,
>
> Thanks for your reply. One of the problems I'm having is figuring out
> which .dll I would need to include (I'm not a software guy).
>
> Would the .dll your speaking of be different th
an the one which is
> installed with the drivers? I'm looking at a .dll that is installed
> when you install the labview drivers for this card, but the run-time
> engine still doesn't want to get the card to work. (The file installed
> when I install the drivers is called 'daqlv32.dll' and I don't know
> how to find any other .dll's I might need)
>
> Actually, it appears the card 'is' being seen by the run-time engine,
> but I'm getting impulses rather than distinct changes of state.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help.
>
> Dave Neumann
> d.neumann@astronautics.com