Upgrade experience CVI2012

[Wolfgang]

Hello colleagues and NI,

here are a few comments on upgrading from CVI2010 to CVI2012:

1. Although not officially supported, CVI2012 still runs on Windows XP 64bit - that's nice (because I use such an exotic system)!
2. Note that the SSP download does not include the Profiler Toolkit, which has to be downloaded and registered separately.
3. Also note that the new NI Update Service 2.1 that installs with CVI 2012 is already outdated, there is a newer version (2.2.1) available for separate download...
4. The list of bug fixes (8 pages) is very impressive (and another good reason to upgrade) - I am glad that I experienced only some of them...
5. Unfortunately upgrading also requires some manual editing... (@ NI: I think this might be improved in future versions!):

If you are using clang as the release compiler and you start compiling your project, you will see strange error messages supposed to be located at line 1 of your code. The reason is that clang isn't configured properly.

Goto to 'Build Options / Build Process Options / Active xxbit compiler' and you will see that the clang configuration has a red cross, i.e.is not properly configured.

To resolve the issue, click on 'Edit / Advanced', and adjust both the 'Compiler Path' and the 'Environment Setup Batch File'

The old compiler path looks something like: c:\program files (x86)\national instruments\cvi2010\bin\clang\clang-cc.exe

Because CVI2012 is installed into a new folder, this path has to be updated to ...\cvi2012\...

The same is true for the environment.

Enjoy the new features  

Wolfgang

[Wolfgang]

Another note:

I did install CVI 2012 after de-installing CVI 2010. However, application data (such as C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\CVI2010) are not removed - I don't know if this is a general Windows policy or a feature of CVI, but I would assume that it should be safe to delete this hidden folder

[LuisG]

Did it leave behind some analysis library files in the CVI2010\bin and CVI2010\extlib folders? If so, then it was probably this bug that has since been fixed.

Luis

[Wolfgang]

Hi Luis,

on the XP computer the only file left behind after de-installing CVI2010 was

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\National Instruments\CVI2010

I vaguely remember that on the Win 7 computer it were two subdirectories

[Wolfgang]

One additional thing to note is that if you have been using clang as external compiler you better should create a new ecc file based on the clang 2.9 template as there seem to be issues when using the previous clang 1.0 template, see here