I recognize this is an old posting, but I have been struggling with this same issue when building my application into an executable. I have a strange case where I am using the executable on the development computer, so all software is installed. I traced the issue down to a piece of commented out code that had a missing subVI. I found this and removed it and then the build worked again.
I find this so strange because the application compiled fine yesterday, with the missing dependency. I cleaned up the project a bit (inherited code with lots of obsolete code still in the project), and this launched the issue. It is strange that the missing code was also missing yesterday, but it decided to break the executable today only after having cleaned up other missing dependencies.
Just wanted to share as this post was the most useful I found.
Thanks!
Ryan
