Change of lvsbutil since LabView 8.2 ?

Question

Hello all,
using LabView 8.5 I started to create a CIN, using VC++ 2008 Express, from this tutorial and the NI LabView Handbook "Using External Code in LabView". They both are very clear & easy to understand. There were some issues with the variables "$(ProjectDir)" and "$(OutDir)" in the Custom Build Step (which calls lvsbutil.exe), since $(OutDir) holds the full path to the output directory, not the relative one. This was fixed quickly.
But I still got an error with the Custom Build Step, despite all parameters were set properly. Now I realized, that the command line parameters of lvsbutil.exe changed (and significantly the size) with LabView Version 8.2. Now there seem all parameters need to be preceded by switches, such as "-c" "-t".  A must- parameter seems to be the -c <code name>, but what does it mean?
Playing around on the command line with lvsbutil always produced: lvsbutil: error building resource file: 1
But when I tried to build the lsb- file with the lvsbutil from LV 8.0, it worked as described in the tutorials. If lvsbutil of LV 8.2 is used with the command line switches set as following, it also works (Bold: output of lvsbutil):
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.2\cintools>lvsbutil -c "SampleCIN" -t CIN -d "C:\Eigene Dateien\VC-Sources\SampleCIN\Debug"
LabVIEW resource file, type 'CIN ', name 'SampleCIN.lsb', created properly.
But this command line doesn't work with lvsbutil of LV 8.5! Anyhow, the command line help of both versions is the same. Since I can use the created .lsb (version 8.2) file with LV 8.5 VIs, this should be no real problem for my work, but what is going on there? Does anyone has a hint, how to use the lvsbutil.exe of LV 8.5? And what do the other parameters mean?
greets, Dave
Greets, Dave

Answer 1

daveTW wrote:
Hello all,
using LabView 8.5 I started to create a CIN, using VC++ 2008 Express, from this tutorial and the NI LabView Handbook "Using External Code in LabView". They both are very clear & easy to understand. There were some issues with the variables "$(ProjectDir)" and "$(OutDir)" in the Custom Build Step (which calls lvsbutil.exe), since $(OutDir) holds the full path to the output directory, not the relative one. This was fixed quickly.
But I still got an error with the Custom Build Step, despite all parameters were set properly. Now I realized, that the command line parameters of lvsbutil.exe changed (and significantly the size) with LabView Version 8.2. Now there seem all parameters need to be preceded by switches, such as "-c" "-t".  A must- parameter seems to be the -c , but what does it mean?
Playing around on the command line with lvsbutil always produced: lvsbutil: error building resource file: 1
But when I tried to build the lsb- file with the lvsbutil from LV 8.0, it worked as described in the tutorials. If lvsbutil of LV 8.2 is used with the command line switches set as following, it also works (Bold: output of lvsbutil):
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.2\cintools>lvsbutil -c "SampleCIN" -t CIN -d "C:\Eigene Dateien\VC-Sources\SampleCIN\Debug"
LabVIEW resource file, type 'CIN ', name 'SampleCIN.lsb', created properly.
But this command line doesn't work with lvsbutil of LV 8.5! Anyhow, the command line help of both versions is the same. Since I can use the created .lsb (version 8.2) file with LV 8.5 VIs, this should be no real problem for my work, but what is going on there? Does anyone has a hint, how to use the lvsbutil.exe of LV 8.5? And what do the other parameters mean?
greets, Dave
The bad lvsbutil for LabVIEW 8.5 is a known issue. They messed that up somehow and it seems not to work at all. Just use the one from LabVIEW 8.2.1. Hope they fix that for LabVIEW 8.5.1 although I don't really create CINs anymore. They really have no sngle advantage over DLLs anymore but quite some disadvantages.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
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