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I date back from the pica.army.mil email list but never used Usenet. I am so not anonymous that I had a bunch of members of that mailing list drop by in one of my old labs say hi and gift me with a NI screw driver (this was back in the day where NI was gifting their users with goodies and trying to cultivate their relations with universities, just to give an idea of how far back I am talking about). I was already pestering about LabVIEW shortcomings (to my defense, that was pre-undo). Nothing changes...

Thanks for the question. A Post-Processing VI may be used on LV 2012 or later in the Application Builder. In this case, the Developer uses the Post-Processing VI to copy over the installed Run-Time Engine (or any other installed Framework) to the Application.app so that it can run without the need to install separately the same version of RTE (or any other installed Framework) on the client's i386, x86_64, or arm64 hardware. Despite NI not providing an installer for the macOS LV, there is a pathway to create an application that "stands alone", i.e., that binary is self-sufficient. Obviously, you can use Packages, Nix, RPM Package Manager, Jamf, etc. to create an installer. However, it turns out that you can handle most of these issues inside LV itself. As for Apple Silicon (arm64) native LV (2023 Q3), it is also possible to create a standalone application. I finally got this to work early this morning and will post it on the the link above after doing some testing. What this means is we can send zipped application files out to anyone who has macOS hardware and they will work as standalone apps. Macophiles don't like installing "drivers" in the sense of heading over to https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/software-products/download.labview.html#443308 . My concern is that NI is pulling LV for macOS in March after 40 years and that Apple may drop Rosetta 2 at some point in the future. At least, LV "development" can continue on the macOS side on both x86_64 and arm64 for the foreseeable future for those who own permanent licenses. NB: macOS LV development is limited by drivers, especially for the arm64 native LV (2023 Q3). Native LV (2023 Q3) is fast on the newer M1 & M2 processors, but doesn't have drivers for NI hardware because of the challenges in developing for Apple's latest derivation of the Darwin kernel. Many of us, hope the Emerson will see the benefit and open source LV. Until then, the installed base will keep coding in G as is. BTW, for a 2021 LV application and the 2021 RTE, it should run on Catalina. As above, you could build a standalone app and test it on a Catalina VM.... Install Runtime Engine 2012 NIVerified.vi