Using program made in CVI 8.0 in Windows 98

[jakub.hus]

HI,
is there any posibility to run program made in CVI 8.0 in Windows 98??

Thanks for answers

[RobertoBozzolo]

It seems to me very difficult that a CVI8 application can run in Win9x: if I'm not wrong, CVI7 was the first version not granted for such OS, version 8 is a little more far from this environment. It may happen (perhaps) that some particular application can run on Win9x, but in my opinion this must be seen as an exception to a general rule that recitates "not working"; moreover, NI will not support you in going this way...

[LuisG]

Roberto is correct. Version 7.1 was the first version to not support Windows 98. CVI 7.1 itself would not install in Windows 98, but it still allowed you to create distributions for your application (via the Create Distribution Kit feature) that could be installed in Windows 98. However, with CVI 8.0 you can't even install distributions in Windows 98, since the newer installer technology that CVI 8 uses simply doesn't allow it.

So if you wanted to run your application in Windows 98, you'd have to zip up all the files you need manually -- including the CVI runtime engine -- and copy them into the target PC. But like Roberto said, NI cannot make any guarantees that the particular libraries you're using will work in Windows 98. Many probably do, at least to some extent, but they have not been tested.

Luis
NI