Porting 5.5 appplication to 8.0

[rjlange]

We are currently looking at porting a Labwindows 5.5 Application to Windows XP.  The App was written by another company and we have the source.  The only  version of Labwindows we have available is 8.0  Are there any major issues to look out for when recompiling the 5.5 code under 8.0?

I've resolved most the legacy driver issues, but we are seeing a lot of uninitialized variables.

[LuisG]

The reason you're only seeing those uninitialized variable warnings now is because those warnings were not reported in CVI 5.5. It's probably a good idea to examine some of those and make sure that thes definitely are not bugs in your program. In some cases, it's okay for variables to be uninitialized, but it should be avoided as much as possible.

If you determine that there is nothing wrong with the program, you can change the warning. Just click on Options>>Build Options, and change the "Uninitialized local variables detection" setting. But keep in mind that it is definitely not recommended that you set it to "Disabled". Usually, setting it to "Conservative" is sufficient to avoid most false positives.

Luis