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lowph

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From: NL

Registered: 2011-10-14

Posts: 24

NI LabVIEW runtime engines, PDS & more

I'm making PKGBUILDs for NI LabVIEW and I'm looking for some advice and testing.

LabVIEW Runtime Engines
I have made PKGBUILD files for a couple of the LabVIEW runtime engines (versions 8.2, 8.5, 8.6, 9, 10 & 11).
These can be installed parallel but there are symbolic links to two libraries which should point to the latest version available. How should I handle this?

LabVIEW 2011
Based on the Academic License DVD set I made the following PKGBUILDS. Anyone willing and able to test these (you'll need to have the NI installation RPMs)?
LabVIEW 2011 (adapt source list if necessary, do a makepkg -g to create the md5sums, the rest should work)
LabVIEW 2011 Control Design and Simulation Module
LabVIEW 2011 VI Analyzer Toolkit
NI Example finder (installs but is not working for me)

NI Hardware drivers (NI DAQmx base)
For USB devices it seems to fail because the kernel is missing usbfs (usbdevfs) support (which is deprecated as far as I understand it).
At the moment I don't have any other hardware (PCI cards etc.) to test with. Anybody else?

I plan to try to get NI-RIO working once I can borrow a cRIO device.

ngoonee

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Re: NI LabVIEW runtime engines, PDS & more

Just put a note on the post-install asking the user to make the decision and create the sym-links. I've got labview installed here, and its not really something I'd want under pacman control, honestly.

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lowph

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From: NL

Registered: 2011-10-14

Posts: 24

Re: NI LabVIEW runtime engines, PDS & more

Just put a note on the post-install asking the user to make the decision and create the sym-links.

I'll take a look at that.

I've got labview installed here, and its not really something I'd want under pacman control, honestly.

Why do you not want to install Labview using pacman?

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,358

Re: NI LabVIEW runtime engines, PDS & more

Just put a note on the post-install asking the user to make the decision and create the sym-links.

I'll take a look at that.

I've got labview installed here, and its not really something I'd want under pacman control, honestly.

Why do you not want to install Labview using pacman?

No benefit. Its a one-time thing to install Labview. Updating costs money and may result in your current project not working (which is bad because its normally for an academic project in my situation.

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