Application Builder
Introduction
The application builder (AB) is a part of the LabVIEW Project environment, it has the possibilities to distribute your code in various ways:
- Executables
- DLLs
- Source distributions
- Web services
- Installers
Depending on the LabVIEW version you have one or more of the above options might be missing.
Manual
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Advanced
The application builder has several interesting advanced uses
Automatic building
You can use a VI inside vi.lib that can build without user interaction. The VI is located in <vi.lib>\AppBuilder\BuildTargetBuildSpecification.vi. This VI takes a project path and optionally a build and target name as parameters.
Symbolic paths
Inside the application builder LabVIEW uses several symbolic paths to have envorinment dependent variables.
| Symbolic path |
Contents |
Usage |
|---|---|---|
| NI_AB_PROJECTNAME |
Name of the project |
Automatically place the build in a folder that is named after the project |
| NI_AB_TARGETNAME |
Name of the (Real-Time) target |