Application Builder Error "Browse to LabVIEW.exe"

LabVIEW gurus...
I am currently building a standalone app from my project. When I run the application (which builds successfully), LabVIEW prompts me to browse to the LabVIEW.exe file. However, I want this app to run on a computer that will not have LabVIEW installed, and so browsing to this file isn't an option.
I know that the reason for this problem is that I'm using 2 call library functions named StrLen and MoveBlock within the LabVIEW.exe library (to access data from a pointer to a pointer).
LabVIEW.exe shows up as one of the dependencies in my project, but I can't figure out how to add it to my build specifications. I tried to build an installer and include the LabVIEW runtime environment, but this doesn't seem to work either.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
I'm using LabVIEW 8.6.
Thanks,
Jason
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In the dll call simply type LabVIEW without any path. This should work (I used it on 7.1)to automagicallylink it.
The functions are also located in the lvrt.dll which is the main part of the runtime engine.
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