This is myu first experience with NI products and I'm going to make damned sure it will be the last. However, having coughed up a substantial amount of money, I'm stuck with the *expletive deleted* object and have to make it work.
It would have cost less time and money to design my own DAC interface and I damn well wish I had.
Can anyone help me? If I want to communicate with the board, my only choice is to download DAQmx software (890MB) which then expands to add a further 947MB and then installs about 900MB further unwanted junk on my machine. I have done this on a laptop but not on my desktop PC. I'd hoped to use the laptop to identify the minimum necessary files.
I have tried extracting the drivers using DriverMax but these aren't complete and require a binary file, which I guess is some sort of firmware. But the .bin name in the .inf file isn't one that's been installed on the laptop (which works). On the desktop PC, a sample app reports that a .dll failed to initialise. But it's a MS .dll, not an NI one! Arrrgh!!
I don't want to dump 2.6GB on my customer's PC and really only want the software necessary to run my user program. Surely this amounts to a fistful of .dll's, .exe's .bin's and .sys's but despite my careful efforts, I can't get to the essense of what is required. Obviously, I can strip out the installation files afterwards but it's still nearly a GB of useless rubbish.
Thanks,
Richard.
