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LabVIEW 2017 with OpenG Zip Tools 4.1.02 on cRIO-9030 (Linux RT target).

I had a piece of code developed in LabVIEW 2015 for a cRIO-9030 where a folder is compressed with the Zlib Compress Directory function, and it has worked for years...Now I converted it to LabVIEW 2017, and for some reason any files (lots of .ini files) in the directory will now end up as folders. What is even stranger is that if I debug I can see that the files are detected as files as they should by the zlib file information VI. I seem to remember having run into a similar issue a long time ago, but I cannot remember what the solution was..

Or perhaps it is a new issue on 2017? I'm in a bit of a hurry so I'm throwing out a question here just in case I get a response before I've spent more time on it...Any ideas?

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It seems as far as I've established so far that everything that gets passed on to the linked library calls are the same on the Linux target as on Windows, (the file attributes e.g. are calculated to be 0) but the resulting file has minor changes (attribute flags I presume; I have not gotten into the details of the format yet) in the first and last lines of the archive. Otherwise the content is identical (in other words the files are there, but incorrectly identified as directories so I do not get to their content).  Perhaps it has never worked on these Linux RT targets :-O I hope I'm wrong.

I know the deflate/inflate works on Linux RT targets, but discovered now that for the directory compression a different method had been put in place at some point in time for the cRIO-9030, so I was wrong when I said it had worked before...It was, it seems, just due to an override on those targets.

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I copy them to a Windows computer and open them there with Explorer.

I just reduced this down now to compression of a single file on a cRIO-9030 with LabVIEW 2015. The input and output files, plus the source (just the top level) is included in the attached file.

Zip test.zip

 

I've also attached a capture of the subVI front panels in the call chain, if that might offer any clues.

Captured front panels.PNG

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The problem does not seem to be Linux RT as such, but the cRIO-9030 - so probably the fact that it is x64.

I took the same code and ran it on a cRIO-9063 (ARM) which also runs Linux RT, and it works as it should. 

 

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