Installation

Note

Rxn Rover currently can only be used by running the source code. You must also download plugins for your desired optimizer, analyzer, and reactor components from the Plugin Catalog.

Prerequisites

In order to run Rxn Rover, you need to acquire a developer version of LabVIEW. We are working on an executable version that can be run with the free LabVIEW runtime engine, but the dynamic nature of Rxn Rover has made this step difficult to implement.

You also need the Dynamic Reentrant library, developed by the Rxn Rover team to facilitate communication between Rxn Rover and its plugins. It can be downloaded from https://www.github.com/RxnRover/DynamicReentrant by clicking the “Code” button and selecting “Download ZIP”. Extract the ZIP file into your <labview>/user.lib/ directory, where <labview> is the location of your LabVIEW installation. user.lib is where user-created, common libraries used across multiple projects are located.

Rxn Rover Setup

Once the prerequisites are installed:

  1. Clone or download/extract the Rxn Rover repository.

  2. Double-click Main.vi in the top directory of the repository.

  3. Click the “Run” arrow in the top left of the window that opens to run Rxn Rover.