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. You can install this library using either a .vip file (via VIPM) or a ZIP archive (for manual installation).

The latest release is available at: Dynamic Reentrant’s release page

  • VIPM Install: Download the .vip package from the Releases page and install it using the VI Package Manager (VIPM).

  • Manual Install: Download the ZIP archive from the same page. Extract its contents into your LabVIEW installation’s user.lib directory:

    <labview>/user.lib/

    where <labview> refers to the directory where LabVIEW is installed. user.lib is where shared or user-created libraries are placed.

Rxn Rover Setup

Once the prerequisites are installed:

Install via VIPM:

  1. Download the .vip from Rxn Rover’s release page.

  2. Open .vip the VIPM application.

  3. Follow the prompts to install Rxn Rover.

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

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

Manual install:

  1. Clone or download/extract the Rxn Rover repository. into your Documents directory.

  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.