Build Specification Support for Architectures and Operating Systems

LabVIEW creates build outputs that correspond to the bitness of LabVIEW and the operating system of the machine that creates the build. When you create a build specification, you cannot configure LabVIEW to target a specific architecture and operating system.

For example:

  • If you use the 64-bit LabVIEW application to build an application on a machine that runs Windows 11, the resulting application is a 64-bit application that supports Windows 11.
  • If you use the 32-bit LabVIEW application to build an application on a machine that runs Windows 10, the resulting application is a 32-bit application that supports Windows 10.

To create a build output of a specific bitness and for a specific operating system, build the output on a machine with those characteristics. If you need to deploy an existing build output on a different system from the system that built the output, you can rebuild the output on the appropriate system.

Installers and executables can be expected to function only on the operating system they are built on.

Note NI dropped support for older Windows versions, such as Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, in May 2021.