Labview App builder asking for DAQmx 8.0.1 when DAQmx 8.3 installed

[TonyRivera]

I keep getting errors from application builder asking to locate the NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 distribution files when I have NI-DAQmx 8.3 installed. NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 will not install because 8.3 is already installed. I tried removing NI-DAQmx 8.3 and installed NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 but my program is using properties not found on 8.0.1. I'm out of ideas on how to solve this.

[Matt_A]

Hello Tony,

The behavior you described does sound very strange. Have you tried uninstalling NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 and then reinstalling NI-DAQmx 8.3 and then building your application? That would be my recommendation based on the information you provided. If you still have issues, I would suggest that you uninstall both versions and install NI-DAQmx 8.3.1 from our website here.

I also have a couple questions to clarify the behavior you are seeing. What version of the NI-DAQmx driver did you use to develop your application? How have you installed the different versions of NI-DAQmx? Are they both on a driver CD that you have? Does the error you are seeing include any error number or error message? Any more information you could provide would be helpful.

[LA 75]

Tony,

The reason why it's asking you to locate the NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 distribution is because you installed it at some point and there is some component there that hasn't been updated (probably because it hasn't change). Below are a few ways to solve the problem:

1. If you installed NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 from the DCD (Driver CD), and you have the CD available, put it in your PC when prompted. If you don't have it available, download it from ni.com (select "Drivers and Updates" and look for DAQmx 8.0.1) and point to it when prompted.

2. Uninstalling DAQmx 8.3 may or may not solve the problem. The reason is that the component that is being searched for in NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 may be dependent on other NI software. For instance, LabVIEW may depend on it, so uninstalling DAQ won't remove that component because of a dependency from LabVIEW still exists. You can try uninstalling DAQmx 8.3, but just want to let you know this may not solve the problem.

Solution # 1. seems to better because you won't have to uninstall any software from your machine...specially if you have DAQmx 8.0.1 on a CD.

I also would like to add that this will be improved in the future. The application builder will become more flexible, such that it will allow different sources for a component when building a distribution. For example, in your case, if creating your distribution requires component X, and component X is present in different distributions you have installed, any of the CDs that contain component X will work...not just the one that installed it.

Please let me know if this answered your question and how everything worked out.

Thanks,

Luis Navarro

National Instruments

[TonyRivera]

DAQmx 8.01 was not installed on the computer. Actually I upgraded from labview 8.2 Pro to labview 8.2 Developer Suite and uninstalled all NI S/W before the upgrade. I did purchase a USB-6009 that came with DAQmx 8.01 CD which I used to install VI logger. My application uses DAQmx 8.3 functions.

I did found that if I used Runtime 5 setup on the installation of DAQmx 8.3 the error doesn't show up and I'm able to get the H/W to work from the installer.

Thanks for the reply.