labview winxp 64bit *VI coding only* with DAQmx

[Zipman]

We have a few workstations in our lab, with a labview 8.2 license for each. One of our machines (few months old dell) has windows xp pro 64bit installed as the operating system. It is not used for data aquistion of any sort, but we do want to be able to write/fix/code VIs involving DAQmx.
The official NI line is that winxp 64 is not supported, but since i don't want to do data aquisition on this machine, there should be some way to create VI with DAQmx.

I have tried an install of labview then a manual install of DAQmx 64bit components manually from the Drivers CD, but it remained invisible to Labview.

Can anyone give me any help with this?

thanks.

[Kameralina]

Hello Zipman,

I have a few angles to bring up regarding your question:

I am curious as to where you found these DAQmx 64-bit drivers?  NI does not make a driver for xp 64, and there are only Vista 64bit compatible drivers.  The two OS' cannot be treated the same way in this case.  Therefore, as you already know, there is no guarantee that they will function on your system.

Also, how exactly did you install DAQmx components manually?  It is possible that a component may have been missed.

The third possibility is that the installs did work and they simply do not appear in your LabVIEW subpalette. 

[Zipman]

Hi FieldKam,

The first thing i tried was the labview install, which of course did not install DAQmx. I then tried to install the NI-DAQ resource disk onto the pc, which resulted in the installer terminating upon the discovery that is was winxp 64.
I then took a closer look at the contents of NI-DAQ's folders, and found 64 bit installers in locations such as \NIDAQ861-1\Products\NI-DAQmx\.
These individual installers appeared to run without issue, but the ability to write VI's in labview with DAQmx assistant and other components would not show.

Now since, data acquisition would not be done on this machine, i pondered a 32bit install. Win xp 64 does run 32 bit applications as well, but i could not fool the installer to install for win xp 32. I attempted to copy a 32 bit install from another machine by folders and registry keys. This made DAQmx - Data acquisition icon under Measurement IO subpalette, but it lacked components such as DAQmx assistant.

Next i tried a brute force approach: i overwrote the folders with those of a 32bit install, which provided all the DAQmx tools in labview, but then was confronted with the problem that Labview could not find the dll (& other libraries) dependencies. I haven't been able to progress past this point.

thanks for any tips you may have!

[Kameralina]

Hello,

I see that you have tried to go around the main driver installer and trick the system to let you install those components, but I am not sure that there is a way of getting around it completely manually. There is a KnowledgeBase article that states what is supported on a 64-bit system, and it contains a link to a list of drivers that support Windows XP 64.  DAQmx is not one of them.

Please note that 64-bit XP and 64-bit Vista are not at all the same, and drivers that are said to work with Vista will probably not work with XP.  This may be why installing the individual components does not work.