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All computers on which you want to run LabVIEW stand-alone applications or shared libraries must have the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine installed. The LabVIEW Run-Time Engine includes the libraries and other files necessary to run applications and shared libraries built in LabVIEW.

The LabVIEW Run-Time Engine also includes the following features:

• A Web browser plug-in that allows clients to view and control front panels remotely using a Web browser
• NI Reports, which provides support for generating LabVIEW reports in applications and shared libraries
• 3D graph support

Note  The LabVIEW Run-Time Engine is multilingual, you do not have to include multiple versions of it with an application, shared library, or installer for which you set a language preference.

If you use the Application Builder to build an installer for an application or shared library, you can add the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine to the installer build. From the Additional Installers page of the Installer Properties dialog box, place a checkmark in the NI LabVIEW Run-Time Engine checkbox in the National Instruments Installers to Include listbox.

All applications and shared libraries built with a particular version of LabVIEW share the same LabVIEW Run-Time Engine, so you need to install the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine for that version only once. If you use LabVIEW 7.x and earlier and want to run applications or shared libraries created with different versions of LabVIEW on the same computer, the computer must have a version of the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine that is compatible with each version of LabVIEW used to create the applications or shared libraries. For example, if you want to run an application created in LabVIEW 7.0 and an application created in LabVIEW 8.0 on the same computer, the computer must have versions 7.0 and 8.0 of the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine. In LabVIEW 8.0 and later, you can use shared libraries in multiple versions of LabVIEW or in multiple versions of the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine, if you create shared libraries using labviewv.lib.

An installer for the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine is located on the LabVIEW CD. Refer to the National Instruments Web site to download the latest version and other versions of the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine.