I am soon going to implement an exe from 2013 onto a server of which network shared variables will be fed from a lab PC. Before I start down this road I want to be shure that when I compile the vi (that will be on the server) it will be in 64 bit. Having trouble finding the exact answer in literature.

The 64 bit versions of labview require their own install. I tried a while back to install a 64 bit version of LV, and the only version I could find is LV 2014 64 bit. It was surprisingly hard to find older 64 bit LV versions on the NI website. Should be around somewhere though, I'd think. EDIT: A word.

LabVIEW

Does 2013 compile exe's in 64bit automatically?

Solved!

Applications built in LabVIEW 32-bit will run on Windows 64-bit - including server editions. I have LabVIEW applications installed on servers running 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 and they work fine. This is true of pretty much every 32-bit application.

I do all of my development/deployment of 32-bit applications to PCs running 64-bit operating systems.

Unless you *need* the memory that 64-bit LabVIEW grants you, there's no reason to use it and lots of reasons against using it (not being able to run it on a 32-bit OS, limited driver/toolkit support etc.)

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