Hello,
according to google you need to port an application from an older cvi6 project up to the last cvi2020 release.
With no details on what the application does, how is developed, which additional toolkit/driver it uses (if any) and so on it is difficult to give you a precise answer.
Take into consideration that some functions/libraries have been superseded and will force you to a rewrite of the application (e.g. Traditional DAQ), other are obsolete but still work (e.g. EasyTab instrument, which can be replaced by built-in tab controls), other have been updated so you need to connect to the correct library and probably have nothing more to do (e.g. Excel interface).
If you have the complete project and a cvi2020 machine I suppose the best you can do is to open the old project, try to compile it and see what happens: you may be lucky and have only minor messages or receive tons of errors due to missing or obsolete libraries and functions.
If you don't want ot use the brute force approach then you may do some preliminary work:
- Open the source files and see if it #includes some strange file that may pertain to some required toolkit/library
- Open the project file with an editor (e.g. notepad) and search for same informations; additionally (not sure for cvi) there may be a [include] section that lists files needed for compilation not listed in sources
- If a distribution there exists, you ma dig into distribution files searching for informations on modules installed with the application (DAQ support, SQL support, third-party modules...)
Having said this, porting an application to a compiler 15 years younger then the original one is not a trivial task: at the minimum you may expect a huge list of warning since the newest compiler is smarter in detecting possible problems like uninitialized variables, missing default cases in switch structures and so on; next you may need to find the best compromise between the simple porting with the minimum work and "modernizing" the UI and the code; and I'm not considering the possibility that the original developer have leveraged some particular and maybe not well documented feature of Win98 that has been deprecated and abandoned in subsequent OS releases, which may force you to a redesign of part of the code...
As a last hint, I suggest you follow up this discussion in English if you can: most of the users of this board cannot speak French and is better not to rely excessively to google translator.
