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Installation and Getting Started

Installation

Obviously, you need both Julia and LabVIEW(TM). The LabVIEW part of the package has been tested on Windows only. The Julia part has been tested on a Mac as well, and should actually work on all supported platforms.

Julia is FOSS and can be downloaded from https://julialang.org/downloads/ . The most current version is highly recommended, but 1.6 (LTS) would also work.

LabVIEW is commercial, but there exists a free Community Edition. This package has been developed using LV2018. The minimal required LV version is 2017: If you want to use this software with LV2017, please contact me. If you have a version higher than 2018, you will need to save the LV libraries of this package for your LV version.

You also need to download ZMQ for LabVIEW and install it using NI Package Manager.

This package is then installed under Julia in the standard julian way: type add LabVIEW0 in the Pkg REPL. The LabVIEW project will be installed as a part of this package. ZMQ for Julia and other dependencies will also be installed.

Getting Started

First, locate the LabVIEW folder within the installed package. You can get it from Julia REPL:
using LabVIEW0
lv_dir();

Second, open the LabVIEW project LabVIEW0.lvproj in the "items view", open the folder Examples of the LV2Julia_examples.lvlib library, and study the examples: The VIs as well as the corresponding Julia scripts. See also this documentation page on Julia scripts.

Third, include the ´LV2Julia_core.lvlib´ library into your own project and use it in combination with your own scripts.

Well, maybe not exactly that simple

  • Upon installation of the Julia package, the files (including LV files) are read-only,
  • After a package update, the location of the LV files may change,
  • If you are using a LV version higher that LV2018, you will need to save all LV files to your LV version.

Thus, for LV2019+ you could proceed like following:

  • Copy the whole LabVIEW folder from the Julia package folder to somewhere else,
  • Delete the read-only attribute from all files
  • open the copied LV project in the LabVIEW and save all files in place

Now, you can include the ´LV2Julia_core.lvlib´ library into your own project. On update, repeat.