making exe without installer

[wmsiii]

I bought Application Builder and have LabView 8 Full Development System and am trying to make EXE's from my VI's.  My question is can I make an .exe that runs without Labview on a machine and without installing it into the registry?  Where I work I don't have Admin rights on the computers and want to build .exe's to run standalone.  I know that you can make .exe's that run with LabView on the machine and you can make an "installer," but that changes the registry and installs it into the Progam Files folder.  I just want a standalone .exe, is it possible with Labview 8? 

[NIquist]

I'm pretty sure you will always require an appropriate run-time engine for any executable you build.  In my experience, administrator privileges are required to install the run-time engines.   I'm still with 7.1.1, maybe there is a way in version 8+???

[smercurio_fc]

With any .exe you build with the Application Builder you need the run-time engine on the target machine, regardless of LabVIEW version. You do not need the development version of LabVIEW on the target machine. Still, installation of the run-time engine requires registry changes since you're installing a program. Note that if you build your application without an installer then you just need to copy the built files to the target machine. The target machine still needs the run-time engine installed, so there's no getting around this part.

[altenbach]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:
With any .exe you build with the Application Builder you need the run-time engine on the target machine, regardless of LabVIEW version.

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In addition, you need the right version of the runtime engine. 😉 (You can install as many versions of the runtime engine as you need)

Actually, there were some workarounds in the past that allowed running a LabVIEW executable without installing the runtime engine. I am not sure if these things still work. See for example the following old post: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=55834#M55834

Message Edited by altenbach on 02-26-2007 02:13 PM