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The following simple shared library example describes the three basic tasks for building external code libraries to call from LabVIEW. (Windows) Applications must have a .dll extension. (Mac OS) Applications must have a .framework extension. (Linux) You can use .so or you can begin with lib and end with .so, optionally followed by the version number. This allows other applications to use the library.

Complete the following steps to build external code libraries to call from LabVIEW.

1. Build the function prototype in LabVIEW.
2. Complete the .c file.
3. Build a library project in an external IDE.

You then can call the shared library that you build.