Rolf Kalbermatter

So they would rather like to pay a yearly subscription (and have their developers loose access once finance decides to stop the recurring payment) than a one time fee and decide at the end of the year if they want to fork over another 25% of the then actual license price to stay in the maintenance program? Sounds like a typical MBA logic! 😀 But if you own old perpetual licenses and can proof it you get to actually renew them by simply paying the Maintenance Support Program (MSP) fee of 25% of the full price. NI has publicly stated that, until mid 2025, they will waive all late fees for lapsed MSPs (basically nobody could possibly still have an active MSP at this point after NI forced everybody to go to SAAS after January 1, 2022). The MSP is actually still slightly cheaper than the SAAS fee, and rightly so, people paying for the perpetual license paid royally for the initial license.

As of yesterday, November 18, the Perpetual licenses for LabVIEW and LabVIEW+ are officially back and should be directly orderable through the normal LabVIEW order page . But yes compared to before when the subscription was pushed down our throat the costs have significantly increased. I would say it is almost a 2.5* price increase if I remember correctly. The current Professional Developer price is higher than what the Developer Suite used to be back then, which also included LabVIEW Realtime and LabVIEW FPGA and just about any possible toolkit there was.

It just occurred to me that there is a potential problem. If your DLLs are always containing 32 in their name, independent of the actual bitness, as for instance many Windows DLLs do, this will corrupt the name for 64-bit LabVIEW installations. I haven't checked if paths to DLL names in the System Directory are added to the Linker Info. If they are, and I would think they are, one would have to skip file paths that are only a library name (indicating to LabVIEW to let the OS try to find them through the standard search mechanism). This of course still isn't fail proof: DLLs installed in the System directory (not from Microsoft though) could still use the 32-bit/64-bit naming scheme, and DLLs not from there could use the fixed 32 naming scheme (or 64 fixed name when building with VIPM build as 64-bit executable, I'm not sure if the latest version is still build in 32-bit).

I checked on a system where I had VIPM 2013 installed and looked in the support/ogb_2009.llb. Maybe your newer VIPM has an improved ogb_2009.llb. Also check out the actual post I updated the image.

Not quite! It's better to actually modify the Copy Resource Files and Relink.vi. Just add an additional case structure to handle shared libraries. The VI in question is this one: This will unconditionally change the linking name of all shared libraries in your build. There is a possibility that that is not desired although I can't think of a reason why that could be a problem right now. Fixup Shared Library Name.vi

There is to my knowledge no way to modify the JKI Builder. Although I think they did fix in recent years a bug that sounded exactly like what I ran across. But the JKI Builder has many other limitations that I'm not fond of so I still rely on my own setup. I basically use ogrsc_builder_3.0.0.11 for the renaming of the VI hierarchy with the opglib prefix with one modifications and then a heavily modified version of the OpenG Package Builder to package everything into the OpenG package. One caveat here, the ogrsc_builder_3.0.0 is from ca. 2009 times (and in 8.6 source code version). It will likely not go well with modern lvclass' and lvlib's and even more likely with lvlibp's files. It does have support for at least lvclass and lvlib but that is most likely fairly unmature seeing when it was last touched. lvclass and lvlib still were fairly new back then and had several quirks even in LabVIEW itself. I changed deep in the belly of the OpenG Builder in OpenG\build\ogb.llb\Copy Resource Files and Relink VIs__ogb.vi, that for shared library names the file name is changed back to the previous <file name>*.* with some magic to detect the 32 or 64 in the file name if present. It's not fail safe and for that not a fix that I would propose for inclusion in a public tool, but it does the job for me. What basically goes wrong is that when LabVIEW loads the VIs, it replaces to magic place holders with the real values in the paths in the VIs in memory and when you then Read the Linker Info to massage that for renaming VIs, you receive these new fully resolved paths and when you then write back the modified linker info you cement the not-platform neutral naming into the VIs and save it to disk. The OpenG Package Builder modifications mainly have to do with a more detailed selection of package content and special settings to more easily allow multi-platform support for shared library and other binary compiled content. In terms of user experience it is the total opposite of VIPM. It would overwhelm the typical user with way to many options and details that it could be useful for most. I had hoped to integrate the hierarchy renaming into the Package Builder too, since the information in the Package Builder would be basically enough to do that, but looking at the core of the OpenG Builder in Build Applciation__ogb.vi will for sure make you get the shivers to try to reimplement that in any useful way. 😁 And yes the naming of the tools is a bit confusing. The OpenG Builder is the tool that massages an existing hierarchy into a new on with VI renaming and relocating them into a configurable tree and fixing up relative paths to be correct for the new names and locations, while the OpenG Package Builder grabs a list of files and simply pushes them into an OpenG package (basically a ZIP file with configuration file). It would be quite useful to integrate the OpenG Builder as an extra prepare step into the OpenG Package Builder but that is a taunting exercise.

The problems with the paths to the shared libraries should be fixed with version 5.0.3. It's a combination of using the <library_name>*.* format to let LabVIEW resolve to the right shared library with the first * being replaced with 32 or 64 and the second with the platform specific shared library file extension (dll and so). Also needed to fixup the linker info in the VIs after creating the renamed (with oglib postfix) VI hierarchy through the OpenG Builder functions. LabVIEW, after creating the renamed hierarchy, will store the fully resolved library name into all VIs, which of course is not very helpful as it pins the VIs then to only use the shared library that matches the LabVIEW platform used to create the package. Version 5.0.4 was adding a working low level API for supporting a progress interface to the storing of files into an archive. Version 5.0.5 was adding an extended interface to the Inflate and Deflate functions to compress and uncompress binary streams and control the header used (none, zlib or gzip). Previously only zlib was supported for Deflate and Inflate. Version 5.0.6 fixes a bug when dealing with UNC names that contain numeric characters such as an IP address in the server name. https://www.vipm.io/package/oglib_lvzip/

It's not listed in https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/bugs/24/labview-2024-q3-bug-fixes.html As LabVIEW user I feel happy for their attention to this. As OpenG ZIP developer I feel a bit cheated. 😁

Unfortunately yes. First signed up 50 minutes ago and started spamming about 5 minutes later, then spamming about every 5 minutes. Second signed up 10 minutes ago and just started spamming. Definitely related as it is both about Norton spam. I'm very anti violence but these guys really get the worst in me out! 👿

Unfortunately it seems not. They said both (the two I checked) that they were created less than an hour ago, when I looked this morning (GMT+2).

What have you tried so far? https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/rest/ documents a REST API to gitlab servers. Did you look at that? Did you try anything? There is for instance the JKI REST API Toolkit that should let you talk to this.

That's normal for cRIOs. They don't usually go lower than a few MHz. I still use them whenever possible, except for loops that must contain nodes that can't be put into a single cycle loop at all. Quite often you do need pipelining anyhow at some point and then often need higher loop rates than your final desired rate and you can always implement your own internal counters that reduce the loop rate further and updates the outputs with the desired lower rate.

Seems to work fine from here today and is very snappy too. Wish the NI site was even remotely as fast. 😀

It seems to start to work! Unless of course you have hired some elves that keep checking the forum and deleting any account created with nefarious motives. 😀 But it is quite some time that I came in the office in the morning and didn't get greeted by a stream of products of humanities lowest when opening LavaG. In fact there seems none, and the latest new member is already 21 hours ago and still has 0 accounted posts for, so he may be actually genuine. Just hope that the moderators new message queue isn't overflowing with held back posts. Although you can always hope that it will die down once they realize that it has exactly 0.0% reach factor.