Installing LabVIEW on Linux through WINE?

[Ido_Wolf]

Wondering if anyone had any luck doing so?

I've managed to install it (though certain components of the installation failed), and LabVIEW even loads up and everything. Only problem with that is that either the NI RIO product or the Utilities update failed to install because of a missing component (can't remember which), so I can't even access an entire realtime target project. I can edit individual SubVI's though, and am currently looking for solutions to get everything to install properly.

(Using Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal)

[Dinoyan]

can you install labVIEW on imac????

[Ido_Wolf]

Originally Posted by Dinoyan

can you install labVIEW on imac????

WINE is also supported in Mac, so if we manage to install it through WINE, I don't think the hosting operating system would matter much.

In addition, my teammate installed LabVIEW on some sort of virtual machine that he used back then, where he could "slide" in and out of his VM-installed Windows 7. It was kinda cool and it worked pretty fast, but he had some sort of connection issues keeping him from connecting to our cRIO. He managed to solve it lately so I'll ask him all about it the next time I see him.

[DominickC]

Remember, Wine Is Not an Emulator.

I'm running on a (worse-for-wear) mid 2011 MacBook Pro 13" with 8gb of RAM and a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Within said Mac, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate via Parallels Desktop Build 7.0.14920 (Revision 689535; August 30, 2011). This allowed our team to run every piece of the FRC LabVIEW Software (sans Kinect), as well as run the robot at the WPI Regional, due to a failed harddrive in our dedicated DS.

To get your virtual machine to properly interface with the FMS during competition and robot during the build, you must use the handy "Network" dropdown menu under Devices on the upper Mac menu bar. During an actual match or tethered testing, you'll want to select Ethernet-->Bridged. During the build season, you must select AirPort-->Bridged to interface with the DLink.

Once you have properly bridged your network connections, you'll need to go to "Open Network and Sharing Center"-->"Change Adapter Settings"-->Right click your NIC-->"Properties"-->"Internet Protocol Version 4(TCP/IPv4)''-->''Properties''-->"Use the following IP address''-->IP: 10.te.am.9, Subnet: 255.0.0.0''-->Ok x2. You're all set. (Note: Keep your wireless/wired settings on Mac OS X clear, as if you were about to brows the open internet.)

Optionally, you can use BetterTouchTool (free) to configure gestures to toggle between Windows 7 and Mac OS X. Both Windows and BetterTouchTool run as smooth as butter, and I would argue that Windows runs much better under Parallels.

If you need any help with Parallels, drop me a PM. I can most certainly offer more detailed install instructions.

Dom

[Greg McKaskle]

I generally have pretty good luck using LV on VMs, and they are used extensively for development. I have no experience with WINE and LV RT. RT relies on quite a few drivers. You may want to replicate this question to the NI forums and see if they have suggestions.

Greg McKaskle

[Ido_Wolf]

DominickC - I know Wine is not an emulator (obviously), I mentioned VM's as a side note because it seemed to work well with my teammate's Mac, so if that Mac user in this thread is looking for a solution whether it's a VM or not, Parallels is probably the way to go.

Greg - I might go for a VM eventually but I tend to get things working with Wine most of the time, so I'll give it a few more days before I give up. I'm not a student anymore and I have quite a bit of free time on my hands during this season so you know, worths a shot
Also, regarding the NI forums suggestion - will do tomorrow. Thank you!

[DaboRoss]

I am trying to run the installation on ubuntu 12.10 with wine, and I get an error installing every component.

This is one error I am getting:

Structured Exception number 0xC0000005

Exception Report:
Exception code: C0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION)
Fault address:  7D7790FF 0001:000480FF C:\windows\system32\msi.dll

Registers:
EAX:00000038
EBX:7D7E4000
ECX:00EE30D8
EDX:00000000
ESI:00E9FF08
EDI:001564B0
CS:EIP:00237D7790FF
SS:ESP:002B00C2E208 EBP:00C2E250
DS:002B ES:002B FS:0063 GS:006B
Flags:00010202

Stack Trace
Address  Frame    LogicalAddr    Module    SymbolName + Offset
7D7790FF 00C2E250 0001:000480FF C:\windows\system32\msi.dll 
7D75B88F 00C2E2E0 0001:0002A88F C:\windows\system32\msi.dll 
7D7484E3 00C2E330 0001:000174E3 C:\windows\system32\msi.dll 
7D777B41 00C2E380 0001:00046B41 C:\windows\system32\msi.dll MsiDoActionW + 97
005DAA04 00C2E63C 0001:001D9A04 D:\Resources\Distributions\LabVIEW 2012\setup.exe 
0049125F 00C2E678 0001:0009025F D:\Resources\Distributions\LabVIEW 2012\setup.exe

That is with the first component. I get other errors on other components, I think they say I need the first one in order for them to work.
Has anyone else had this error?

[Greg McKaskle]

That looks to me like the MSI -- Microsoft Installer dll crashed. It is an OS library that compares registry info and installer package info and decides that needs to be installed, etc. It is pretty crucial.

Greg McKaskle

[DaboRoss]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

That looks to me like the MSI -- Microsoft Installer dll crashed. It is an OS library that compares registry info and installer package info and decides that needs to be installed, etc. It is pretty crucial.

Greg McKaskle

Do you know a way to restore that file in wine?
Would a deletion of the wine prefix fix it do you think?

EDIT: I only need the driver station support, if that changes anything.

EDIT: I deleted the wine prefix, and retried the installer. But now I get an error whenever I try to open the Driver Station.
This is what WINE says:

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x06000006 in 32-bit code (0x06000006).
Register dump:
 CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
 EIP:06000006 ESP:0033d610 EBP:0033d878 EFLAGS:00010202(  R- --  I   - - - )
 EAX:03321640 EBX:00000000 ECX:00000000 EDX:0033d5ac
 ESI:00000000 EDI:00a3aac0
Stack dump:
0x0033d610:  300237f4 00000000 00a9783c 00000001
0x0033d620:  00000000 02bc7280 30933fdc 00900010
0x0033d630:  30933ff8 00000000 0033d9b0 0033d650
0x0033d640:  3093351e 00000000 308084d0 02bc7280
0x0033d650:  0033d894 307d69d3 02bc7280 00000000
0x0033d660:  00a9783c 00000010 00000000 00000000
000c: sel=0067 base=00000000 limit=00000000 16-bit --x
Backtrace:
=>0 0x06000006 (0x0033d878)
  1 0x30023977 in lvrt (+0x23976) (0x0033d8a0)
  2 0x3002424f in lvrt (+0x2424e) (0x0033dc6c)
  3 0x300250c4 in lvrt (+0x250c3) (0x0033dc8c)
  4 0x30027bc4 in lvrt (+0x27bc3) (0x0033dcb0)
  5 0x300282b2 in lvrt (+0x282b1) (0x0033e14c)
  6 0x30092920 in lvrt (+0x9291f) (0x0033e164)
  7 0x3065107b in lvrt (+0x65107a) (0x0033e18c)
  8 0x3064fa43 in lvrt (+0x64fa42) (0x0033e214)
  9 0x302f543d in lvrt (+0x2f543c) (0x0033e28c)
  10 0x302f8c60 in lvrt (+0x2f8c5f) (0x0033e63c)
  11 0x3024c0d2 in lvrt (+0x24c0d1) (0x0033e68c)
  12 0x3024c356 in lvrt (+0x24c355) (0x0033e7f8)
  13 0x302f3cbd in lvrt (+0x2f3cbc) (0x0033eacc)
  14 0x302f4373 in lvrt (+0x2f4372) (0x0033ec68)
  15 0x300f78af in lvrt (+0xf78ae) (0x0033f574)
  16 0x3084f987 in lvrt (+0x84f986) (0x0033f5b8)
  17 0x308e9115 in lvrt (+0x8e9114) (0x0033f5c8)
  18 0x3084fa9c in lvrt (+0x84fa9b) (0x0033f60c)
  19 0x30873148 in lvrt (+0x873147) (0x0033f614)
  20 0x308e8709 in lvrt (+0x8e8708) (0x0033f630)
  21 0x30872399 in lvrt (+0x872398) (0x0033f684)
  22 0x30028f4c in lvrt (+0x28f4b) (0x0033f71c)
  23 0x300290f2 in lvrt (+0x290f1) (0x0033fc90)
  24 0x30029160 in lvrt (+0x2915f) (0x0033fca0)
  25 0x00401142 in driver station (+0x1141) (0x30029150)
0x06000006: addb	%al,0x0(%eax)
Modules:
Module	Address			Debug info	Name (154 modules)
PE	  3f0000-  3fc000	Deferred        qtmanager452_2012
PE	  400000-  5c7000	Export          driver station
PE	 1310000- 1472000	Deferred        nilmclient
PE	 1480000- 14c4000	Deferred        xerces-depdom_2_6
PE	 14d0000- 154c000	Deferred        msvcp71
PE	 1c20000- 1cb9000	Deferred        nitaglv
PE	 1cc0000- 1cf9000	Deferred        lkdynam
PE	 1d00000- 1d28000	Deferred        lksec
PE	 1d30000- 1da6000	Deferred        lksock
PE	 1db0000- 1de7000	Deferred        lkbrow
PE	 1df0000- 1e46000	Deferred        lkrealt
PE	 2f50000- 2f58000	Deferred        nicyapi
PE	 3060000- 30cb000	Deferred        lvsound2
PE	 31e0000- 31e6000	Deferred        crc
PE	 31f0000- 3204000	Deferred        lvinput
PE	 3320000- 332b000	Deferred        dncinterface120
PE	10000000-10021000	Deferred        nicpulib
PE	12000000-12241000	Deferred        xerces-c_2_6
PE	30000000-30dae000	Export          lvrt
PE	31000000-31023000	Deferred        nationalinstruments.labview120
PE	65000000-657b3000	Deferred        niqtgui_2012
PE	67000000-67221000	Deferred        niqtcore_2012
PE	783f0000-78433000	Deferred        msvcm90
PE	78480000-7850e000	Deferred        msvcp90
PE	78520000-785c3000	Deferred        msvcr90
ELF	7b800000-7ba29000	Deferred        kernel32<elf>
  \-PE	7b810000-7ba29000	\               kernel32
ELF	7bc00000-7bcc3000	Deferred        ntdll<elf>
  \-PE	7bc10000-7bcc3000	\               ntdll
ELF	7bf00000-7bf04000	Deferred        <wine-loader>
PE	7c360000-7c3b6000	Deferred        msvcr71
ELF	7e5c1000-7e5f5000	Deferred        uxtheme<elf>
  \-PE	7e5d0000-7e5f5000	\               uxtheme
ELF	7e5f5000-7e5fc000	Deferred        libxfixes.so.3
ELF	7e5fc000-7e607000	Deferred        libxcursor.so.1
ELF	7e67c000-7e6a4000	Deferred        libexpat.so.1
ELF	7e6a4000-7e6dc000	Deferred        libfontconfig.so.1
ELF	7e6dc000-7e6ec000	Deferred        libxi.so.6
ELF	7e6ec000-7e6f7000	Deferred        libxrandr.so.2
ELF	7e6f7000-7e701000	Deferred        libxrender.so.1
ELF	7e701000-7e707000	Deferred        libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF	7e707000-7e70b000	Deferred        libxinerama.so.1
ELF	7e70b000-7e72d000	Deferred        imm32<elf>
  \-PE	7e710000-7e72d000	\               imm32
ELF	7e72d000-7e74f000	Deferred        libxcb.so.1
ELF	7e74f000-7e769000	Deferred        libice.so.6
ELF	7e769000-7e89f000	Deferred        libx11.so.6
ELF	7e89f000-7e8b1000	Deferred        libxext.so.6
ELF	7e8b1000-7e8ba000	Deferred        libsm.so.6
ELF	7e8d3000-7e967000	Deferred        winex11<elf>
  \-PE	7e8e0000-7e967000	\               winex11
ELF	7e967000-7e980000	Deferred        libz.so.1
ELF	7e980000-7ea1a000	Deferred        libfreetype.so.6
ELF	7ea28000-7ea2c000	Deferred        libxcomposite.so.1
ELF	7ea2c000-7ea33000	Deferred        libxdmcp.so.6
ELF	7ea33000-7eb2c000	Deferred        comctl32<elf>
  \-PE	7ea40000-7eb2c000	\               comctl32
ELF	7eb2c000-7eb8e000	Deferred        advapi32<elf>
  \-PE	7eb40000-7eb8e000	\               advapi32
ELF	7eb8e000-7ec4b000	Deferred        gdi32<elf>
  \-PE	7eba0000-7ec4b000	\               gdi32
ELF	7ec4b000-7ed8b000	Deferred        user32<elf>
  \-PE	7ec60000-7ed8b000	\               user32
ELF	7ed8b000-7ed98000	Deferred        libnss_files.so.2
ELF	7ed98000-7edb2000	Deferred        libnsl.so.1
ELF	7edb2000-7edbb000	Deferred        libnss_compat.so.2
ELF	7efbb000-7efe7000	Deferred        libm.so.6
ELF	7efe7000-7f000000	Deferred        version<elf>
  \-PE	7eff0000-7f000000	\               version
ELF	f55ba000-f5618000	Deferred        dbghelp<elf>
  \-PE	f55c0000-f5618000	\               dbghelp
ELF	f5618000-f5648000	Deferred        mscoree<elf>
  \-PE	f5620000-f5648000	\               mscoree
ELF	f5648000-f5664000	Deferred        dinput8<elf>
  \-PE	f5650000-f5664000	\               dinput8
ELF	f5664000-f568f000	Deferred        msvcr80<elf>
  \-PE	f5670000-f568f000	\               msvcr80
ELF	f6447000-f64ae000	Deferred        setupapi<elf>
  \-PE	f6450000-f64ae000	\               setupapi
ELF	f6511000-f653c000	Deferred        netapi32<elf>
  \-PE	f6520000-f653c000	\               netapi32
ELF	f653c000-f65c9000	Deferred        msvcrt<elf>
  \-PE	f6550000-f65c9000	\               msvcrt
ELF	f65c9000-f65e7000	Deferred        wintab32<elf>
  \-PE	f65d0000-f65e7000	\               wintab32
ELF	f65e7000-f660d000	Deferred        mpr<elf>
  \-PE	f65f0000-f660d000	\               mpr
ELF	f660d000-f667c000	Deferred        wininet<elf>
  \-PE	f6620000-f667c000	\               wininet
ELF	f667c000-f6700000	Deferred        urlmon<elf>
  \-PE	f6690000-f6700000	\               urlmon
ELF	f680b000-f686e000	Deferred        ieframe<elf>
  \-PE	f6810000-f686e000	\               ieframe
ELF	f686e000-f688c000	Deferred        libgcc_s.so.1
ELF	f688c000-f68a7000	Deferred        spoolss<elf>
  \-PE	f6890000-f68a7000	\               spoolss
ELF	f68a7000-f68c8000	Deferred        localspl<elf>
  \-PE	f68b0000-f68c8000	\               localspl
ELF	f68c8000-f68d1000	Deferred        librt.so.1
ELF	f68d1000-f68d6000	Deferred        libgpg-error.so.0
ELF	f68d6000-f68ed000	Deferred        libresolv.so.2
ELF	f68ed000-f68f1000	Deferred        libkeyutils.so.1
ELF	f68f1000-f693b000	Deferred        libdbus-1.so.3
ELF	f693b000-f694f000	Deferred        libp11-kit.so.0
ELF	f694f000-f69d3000	Deferred        libgcrypt.so.11
ELF	f69d3000-f69e5000	Deferred        libtasn1.so.3
ELF	f69e5000-f69ee000	Deferred        libkrb5support.so.0
ELF	f69ee000-f69f3000	Deferred        libcom_err.so.2
ELF	f69f3000-f6a1b000	Deferred        libk5crypto.so.3
ELF	f6a1b000-f6ae9000	Deferred        libkrb5.so.3
ELF	f6ae9000-f6afb000	Deferred        libavahi-client.so.3
ELF	f6afb000-f6b09000	Deferred        libavahi-common.so.3
ELF	f6b09000-f6bcd000	Deferred        libgnutls.so.26
ELF	f6bcd000-f6c0a000	Deferred        libgssapi_krb5.so.2
ELF	f6c0a000-f6c69000	Deferred        libcups.so.2
ELF	f6c6c000-f6c80000	Deferred        msimg32<elf>
  \-PE	f6c70000-f6c80000	\               msimg32
ELF	f6cb0000-f6d25000	Deferred        gdiplus<elf>
  \-PE	f6cc0000-f6d25000	\               gdiplus
ELF	f6d25000-f6d39000	Deferred        psapi<elf>
  \-PE	f6d30000-f6d39000	\               psapi
ELF	f6d39000-f6d5b000	Deferred        iphlpapi<elf>
  \-PE	f6d40000-f6d5b000	\               iphlpapi
ELF	f6d5b000-f6d8d000	Deferred        ws2_32<elf>
  \-PE	f6d60000-f6d8d000	\               ws2_32
ELF	f6d8d000-f6da8000	Deferred        wsock32<elf>
  \-PE	f6d90000-f6da8000	\               wsock32
ELF	f6da8000-f6dd0000	Deferred        msacm32<elf>
  \-PE	f6db0000-f6dd0000	\               msacm32
ELF	f6dd0000-f6e7d000	Deferred        winmm<elf>
  \-PE	f6de0000-f6e7d000	\               winmm
ELF	f6e7d000-f6f6f000	Deferred        oleaut32<elf>
  \-PE	f6e90000-f6f6f000	\               oleaut32
ELF	f6f6f000-f6fe5000	Deferred        rpcrt4<elf>
  \-PE	f6f80000-f6fe5000	\               rpcrt4
ELF	f6fe5000-f70ec000	Deferred        ole32<elf>
  \-PE	f7000000-f70ec000	\               ole32
ELF	f70ec000-f7126000	Deferred        winspool<elf>
  \-PE	f70f0000-f7126000	\               winspool
ELF	f7126000-f7190000	Deferred        shlwapi<elf>
  \-PE	f7130000-f7190000	\               shlwapi
ELF	f7190000-f73a3000	Deferred        shell32<elf>
  \-PE	f71a0000-f73a3000	\               shell32
ELF	f73a3000-f7482000	Deferred        comdlg32<elf>
  \-PE	f73b0000-f7482000	\               comdlg32
ELF	f7482000-f7488000	Deferred        libuuid.so.1
ELF	f7489000-f748e000	Deferred        libdl.so.2
ELF	f748e000-f7638000	Deferred        libc.so.6
ELF	f7639000-f7654000	Deferred        libpthread.so.0
ELF	f7655000-f7659000	Deferred        libxau.so.6
ELF	f7660000-f766c000	Deferred        libnss_nis.so.2
ELF	f766d000-f77af000	Dwarf           libwine.so.1
ELF	f77b1000-f77d3000	Deferred        ld-linux.so.2
ELF	f77d3000-f77d4000	Deferred        [vdso].so
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
	00000710    0
	0000001e    0
	00000015    0
	00000010    0
	0000000f    0
00000012 winedevice.exe
	0000001c    0
	00000019    0
	00000014    0
	00000013    0
0000001a plugplay.exe
	00000020    0
	0000001d    0
	0000001b    0
00000021 explorer.exe
	00000022    0
00000027 setup.exe
	00000028    0
00000721 (D) C:\Program Files (x86)\FRC Driver Station\Driver Station.exe
	0000072c    0
	0000072b    0
	0000072a    0
	00000729    0
	00000728    0
	00000727   15
	00000726    0
	00000725    0
	00000724   15
	00000722    0 <==
System information:
    Wine build: wine-1.4.1
    Platform: i386 (WOW64)
    Host system: Linux
    Host version: 3.5.0-22-generic

[Greg McKaskle]

I use VMs quite a bit, but have never used WINE. Perhaps someone else knows some tricks, or perhaps you should use a VM or dual-boot.

Greg McKaskle

[Fifthparallel]

The only problem I've had while using a vm (it was an older stable version of WINE, though) is that the NI installer for FRC things does a windows version check -- which for some reason I couldn't get to pass.

Other problems people have had are not properly forwarding connections for deploys. This seemed to either be a driver issue or an improperly configured Fedora 15 Core problem, however.

[DaboRoss]

I would rather not install a VM just to run the driver station if I can get it installed on wine. Has anyone else had that error I posted above?