Deploying VIs in LabVIEW Packed Project Libraries

Consider the following recommendations and requirements for deploying VIs when you decide whether to use LabVIEW packed project libraries in a TestStand system:

• Packed project libraries reduce the number of files required to create a deployment using the TestStand Deployment Utility and reduce the total build time because packed project libraries are precompiled files.
• Packed project libraries are compressed files and therefore occupy less disk space than VIs.
• You must determine whether the test system will benefit more from the faster build times the pre-built packed project libraries offer or the convenience of using the deployment utility to build the packed project library:
  • If you are deploying a pre-built packed project library, the deployment utility copies only the packed project library.
  • If you configure the deployment utility to create a packed project library, it must create the packed project library on every build.
• Packed project libraries are compressed files and therefore occupy less disk space than VIs.
• The deployment utility supports building the packed project library with debugging information to support debugging of the packed project library on the deployed system.