Sara Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Hi, I am building a VI package with the VIPM 2014 that contains a LabVIEW 2013 project (.lvproj) and some support files, but no VIs. This used to work in older versions of VIPM, but it is not working now. I get an error saying: "You're trying to build a package using LabVIEW as your target but there are no LabVIEW compatible files in the source folder you selected. Please try another source folder o switch to using the System target" Is there any workaround for this issue? Thanks, Sara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashish Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 Sara, So, as suggested in the message, did you try building with System target? We introduced "System" as a target in order for users like you to create packages without VIs in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara Posted April 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 Hi Ashish, Thanks for your answer. Using the System target is not the best approach for us. We are developing a library that will work on several platforms. We were planning to create a VI package for each platform that will contain the board files (so NI MAX can install the library in the board) and a LabVIEW project as an example on how to use the library. For the files for NI MAX, we could go with a System target. The LabVIEW project, on the other hand, needs to be installed in <LabVIEW version>/examples. For that, we need to use the LabVIEW target when generating the package. Is there a workaround we could use? Thanks,Sara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab Posted June 19, 2015 Report Share Posted June 19, 2015 Hi Ashish, Thanks for your answer. Using the System target is not the best approach for us. We are developing a library that will work on several platforms. We were planning to create a VI package for each platform that will contain the board files (so NI MAX can install the library in the board) and a LabVIEW project as an example on how to use the library. For the files for NI MAX, we could go with a System target. The LabVIEW project, on the other hand, needs to be installed in <LabVIEW version>/examples. For that, we need to use the LabVIEW target when generating the package. Is there a workaround we could use? Thanks, Sara I am getting the same error, but I am trying something different... However, when I saw what you are trying to do, it seems to me that you could create a Project Template, check out if you have not already: http://www.ni.com/tutorial/14045/en/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab Posted June 19, 2015 Report Share Posted June 19, 2015 BTW, I got around a similar problem by just creating a VI Tree that has some information about how the depending packages are used and that was enough to get the package built. In other words, create a dummy VI, don't add it to palettes or anything else, but that will be enough to get VIPM into building your empty package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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