July 2022
This file contains important information about Vision Development Module, including installation instructions, new features, fixed issues, and known issues.
You can find more release information on ni.com.
Product Security and Critical Updates
Automating the Installation of NI Products
Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10
Unsupported Windows Operating Systems
The Vision Development Module (VDM) provides hundreds of image processing and machine vision functions. Along with programming libraries, the Vision Development Module also includes NI Vision Assistant. Installing this software may remove previous versions of the Vision Development Module that are currently installed.
Note: The Vision Development Module overwrites existing NI Vision examples and NI Vision VIs. Move modified examples or VIs that you want to save to another directory before installing the Vision Development Module.
For information about licensing NI Vision software, visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code LicenseVision. Refer to the NI Vision for the latest information about the Vision Development Module.
Vision Development Module 2022 Q3 has the following requirements:
Vision Development Module 2022 Q3 supports the following operating systems:
The following table lists the NI application software versions, including service packs, supported by the Vision Development Module. The installer specifically allows side-by-side installations of Vision Development Module for each of the supported versions of LabVIEW, enabling you to use the Vision Development Module with multiple versions of LabVIEW. National Instruments recommends that you install LabVIEW, LabVIEW Real-Time, or any other supported development environment, before installing the Vision Development Module.
| NI Application Software | Versions Supported by Vision Development Module |
|---|---|
| NI LabVIEW | 2019 and later |
| NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module | 2019 and later |
| NI LabVIEW Real-Time 64-Bit Module | 2021 64-bit and later |
| NI LabVIEW FPGA Module | 2019 and later |
| NI LabVIEW FPGA 64-Bit Module | 2020 64-bit and later |
| NI LabWindows™/CVI™ | 2017 and later |
Development and runtime support for .NET features are no longer included with Vision Development Module 2020 and later. Refer to GitHub page Vision Development Module for .NET for more information about open-source versions of Vision Development Module.
For more information and the complete list of Vision functions and hardware supported on FPGA, visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code VisionFPGASupport.
Download the Vision Development Module installer from ni.com/downloads. NI software includes NI Package Manager to handle the installation. Refer to the NI Package Manager Manual for more information about installing, removing, and upgrading NI software using Package Manager.
Notes
Deployment refers to developing an application so that it can be distributed, or deployed, on a different computer than the one on which the application was developed. The Vision Development Module provides everything you need to deploy custom NI Vision applications to target computers. The Vision Development Module provides the following options:
The Vision Development Module installer provides the runtime installer for NI Vision that can be packaged for redistribution by LabVIEW, CVI, or the standalone NI Package Builder. Visit ni.com to download software upgrades for NI Vision and the NI Vision Runtime installers.
You can install the NI Vision Runtime with your application installer. If you create the application installer with the LabVIEW Application Builder or with LabWindows/CVI, you can directly include the NI Vision Runtime.
Refer to the LabVIEW Help for more information about the LabVIEW Application Builder. Refer to the NI LabWindows/CVI Help for more information about building and distributing LabWindows/CVI applications.
You can use NI Package Builder to package your custom application installer along with the NI Vision Runtime installer. This may be useful if you are creating an installer for applications created in other development environments.
The NI Vision Runtime installer may require the system to be restarted after installation. Refer to the Automating the Installation of NI Products section for more information on how to change the level of interactivity of the installer or whether it automatically initiates a system restart.
The NI Vision Runtime installer does not install LabVIEW VIs. If you use the LabVIEW Application Builder to create an application (EXE) or dynamic link library (DLL), the Application Builder automatically includes the VIs used by the application. If you distribute a VI, you must include all subVIs that comprise the top-level VI. You must include the appropriate LabVIEW Runtime as part of the installation.
Refer to the LabVIEW Help for more information about viewing the hierarchy of VIs and for more information about using the LabVIEW Runtime.
In addition to including the NI Vision Runtime with the installer, you must include the appropriate LabWindows/CVI Runtime. Refer to the NI LabWindows/CVI Help for more information about creating an executable, creating a dynamic link library, and distributing applications.
Visit ni.com/security to view and subscribe to receive security notifications about NI products. For information about critical updates from NI, refer to Available Critical and Security Updates for NI Software.
Documentation and examples are installed onto your hard drive with the Vision Development Module. To view the documentation, select Start»National Instruments»Vision Documentation, or navigate to <Users>\Public\Public Documents\National Instruments\Vision\Documentation.
Refer to the NI Product Documentation Center at ni.com/docs for the most recent versions of product documentation.
The following sections describe the documents available for each application development environment and where to find examples.
The NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP environment variable is provided as an alias to the location of C language support files. You can use this variable when compiling and linking an application. The Application Interface files (header and library files to include in applications) are placed in a centralized location to prevent users from accidentally overwriting them and to provide this NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP environment variable.
Note: $(NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP) is configured as an environment variable on the target system. The variable evaluates by default to \Program Files\National Instruments\shared\ExternalCompilerSupport\C.
| Item | Installed Location |
| header files | <$(NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP)>\include |
| 32-bit MSVC import libraries | <$(NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP)>\lib32\msvc |
| 64-bit MSVC import libraries | <$(NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP)>\lib64\msvc |
You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes.
If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.6.2, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.6.2 separately before you install NI software.
For more information about automating the installation of NI products, refer to Automating an Installer in the NI Package Manager manual.
For more information about NI support for Windows 10, refer to NI Product Compatibility for Microsoft Windows 10.
Vision Development Module no longer supports Windows Vista/XP/7/8.x, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, or any 32-bit Windows operating system. Versions of this product that ship after May 1, 2021, may not install or execute correctly on these operating systems. For detailed information about NI operating system support, visit http://www.ni.com/r/win32bitsupport.
The Vision Development Module supports the external vision library OpenCV. Refer to the Developing Vision Applications using OpenCV and NI Vision to download the NI Vision OpenCV support utilities.
NI Vision OpenCV support utilities enable the use of OpenCV algorithms in LabVIEW and NI Embedded hardware. NI Vision OpenCV support utilities provide:
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