interactive window error.

[Sergei]

could you help me to recognize the problem,
we are using LabWindows\CVI 7.1.1 (314)- last path, and when
we are running interactive window (debug) then we immediately
get following message:

The debugging information file for 'iw.exe' is out of date
You will unable debug this DLL/EXE

What is going on, may be the past path was bad?
Txn in advance, Sergei

[DaveC]

Sergei,

When you create a debuggable executable or DLL Labwindows/CVI creates a .cbd file along with the .exe or .dll/.lib files. This .cdb file is used to reference debugging information and it has the same name as your .exe or .dll. In your case the debug file would be 'iw.cdb'. When you see the message that you described it means that the timestamp on your 'iw.exe' does not match up with your 'iw.cdb' file, (it could also be that the 'iw.cdb' file simply does not exist).

If you rebuild the 'iw.exe' program it should automatically create a new .cdb file for you, which would take care of the message.

You can still run your program without the .cdb file, it just means that if there is a probelm in the program that causes it to break you won't be able to see where in the code the break happened.

[bilalD]

Sergei

Try uninstalling the patch and reinstalling it from here. You will need to uninstall CVI 7.1 to remove the patch. You can remove CVI by going to Add/Remove Programs in the control panel.

Then after CVI 7.1 is re-installed, delete any of the previous patch files that you had, and use the patch linked above instead.

Let me know if you have any problems.

[Sergei]

many thanks Bilal, everything is o'key now.

[MaWie]

I have the same problems as described by Sergei with CVI 8.0.

Is any patch for CVI 8.0 available?

[bilalD]

The iw.exe problem was a known issue with 7.1.1. This is the first I am hearing about it with CVI 8.0.
Are you able to reproduce this consistently? Is this a fresh install of CVI 8.0? Has uninstalling CVI, deleting the CVI folder from Program Files and reinstalling helped? Does this happen with every function panel you use?

[MaWie]

Hi bilaID,

there was no problem with CVI8.0, but with my search paths of TestStand (=external process). On the one Hand TestStand called my DLL in one path and on the other hand it (or CVI) has accessed a cdb-file in another path, that contained an old backup of my working path. So the error message was right by saying that the "debugging information file ..is out of date".

The problem solved by using dll and cdb of the same path 🙂

Sorry for my post. Forget about it.

Thanks and regards

MaWie