Segment the LabVIEW Run Time Engine (RTE) to ONLY Necessary Components

[JackDunaway]

For distribution, only package necessary libraries in installer packages built with the project. A lightweight UI, server, or client does not need a full 70MB+ installer that bloats out to a few hundred MB's once installed! A colleague has remarked that the total size of our LabVIEW application+RTE EXCEEDS the entire size of the XPe image running on the embedded computer! This becomes an issue when distributing software upgrades to places in the world without high-speed internet connectivity.

[MikeS81]

If we get this feature, then i think we need a switch to turn it on or off. In some cases we need the entire runtime engine, for example to load dynamical vi's which are not part of the application.

[JackDunaway]

Very true - a switch to turn it on and off would be nice. Logistics and support might get hairy, but NI may go so far as to provide a list of components in the RTE that you can check/uncheck that you want included (with the ones called by the app already pre-checked and dimmed).

[vix]

I asked NI for a modular RTE so many times...

.. so Kudos to this idea!!

[Tom_Hawkins]

This sounds like a good idea but I'm not sure why it has the 'Third party integration and API's' tag?

[JimFortuna]

I am trying to distribute a LabVIEW executable to sailors on boats in remote areas where they have limited access to the internet, and no mail service to send them a disk.  The run-time is too big to send out from my web service.  I have tried breaking it up from the installer, but it does not seem to work properly.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

[JackDunaway]

altenbach has distilled the essence of this Idea into four words: Build Spec: Standalone Executable. See Build executables that don't require a runtime engine for details on the conversation.

[josborne]

This would be a huge improvement, and has been something I have been complaining about for a long time.  Let's all KUDO this idea and get it implemented! 

[JackDunaway]

For anyone following along, I have posted an article about how to achieve this (don't hesitate to drop a line if you get stuck!): http://wirebird.co/Minify-RTE

[fomine]

Thank you, Jack!

That helped me to reduce my app to 35MB, and that including the VISA rt 🙂

Best,

Evgeny

[JackDunaway]

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@fomine wrote:

Thank you, Jack! .... That helped me to reduce my app to 35MB

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Excellent! Your customers will love you for it 🙂

The time savings for you and your end-users uploading/downloading 35MB vs 200MB+ is truly significant.

(Check your private messages -- I'm interested to hear more about your experiences, as this process more resembles an art than a science)