run labview exe in other way than runtime engine?

[Alias A]

Hi guys

This might be stupid question, but can I run labview's *.exe in other way than in the runtime engine? In these days in have done *exe and installer with runtime engine and give it to the end-user. It does not matter how tiny ur code is, user have to install 40 conponents and then restart computer... How annoying. Is there eny other way? Can i use other programming languages some how?

-AA-

[Dennis_Knutson]

No, you have to use the LabVIEW runtime with a LabVIEW exe. It's no different than using the correct runtime with any other exe built with different programming languages.

[altenbach]

If the runtime is only one out of 40 components, it should not make a big difference for you.

I always tell my users to download and install the runtime engine directly from NI. This needs to be done only once per PC and per runtime version, at which point you can distribute a small installer.

There is also an idea to simplify all this. Please support it. 🙂

(It is not reasonable to be able to build an executable with embedded runtime, that would make a LabVIEW 2009 executable 100+MB in size. (We had that back in LabVIEW 4.0, where each 20kb VI turned into a 3+MB executable, which was significant in the days of 1GB drives.)

Message Edited by altenbach on 12-16-2009 11:42 AM