missing nidaqmxbaselv.dll - programm installed and but it doesn't want to run

[MarekTheStudent]

Hello everybody,

yesterday I finished a little program about reading in the analog input port with a NI USB-6008 Multifunctional I/O Card. I made a Distribution Kit, installed it and it runs without problems BUT when I install this Distribution Kit on another PC, where never before was installed something like Labview, LabWindows/CVI or NI-DAQ then my program doesn't start. It says that the "nidaqmxbase.dll" is missing but when I copy it from my working PC to the PC I want to run my little program then it says something like a "CVI Runtime Engine Fault" and I should contact my vendor (Distribution is made with option "full run-time engine support"). I know that when I install the NI-DAQ CD with all the drivers my program then should run but is this really necessary? Installing a program that only needs 5 MB and a driver from a CD that needs about more than 200 MB? This can't be real?! o_O

Greetings
Marek S.

[jlaney]

Hello,

The distribution kit does not install the NI-DAQ driver for you. You must install NI-DAQ on the target machine to get everything registered and working properly. You can choose a minimal set of features and it should work (like you do not need any of the APIs on the target machine) but you do need the many DLL of DAQ installed and registered on the machine for your application to work properly.

Jeff
NI