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Installing Agilent I/O Libraries Suite 2
Agilent Connectivity Guide 43
Specifying IVI and VISA Paths in Microsoft Visual Studio
In Visual Studio (VS), you must add the directories that contain IVI and
VISA executables, include files, and libraries to the corresponding
search paths. If these paths do not include IVI and VISA directories,
various Visual Studio programs (including the C++ preprocessor, the
MIDL compiler, and the linker) may not be able to find needed IVI and
VISA files, and will generate errors. Typical errors are:
fatal error C1083: Cannot open type library file:
'IviDriverTypeLib.dll': No such file or directory
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'IviDriver.h': No
such file or directory
This section explains how to identify the IVI and VISA directories that
must be added to Visual Studio. For information on how to add
directories to the Visual Studio search paths, consult the help for your
version of Visual Studio.
VISA and VISA COM
To find the base directory where VISA and VISA-COM files are stored
on your system, look in the registry for the key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\VXIPNP_Alliance\VXIPNP\CurrentVersion\
VXIPNPPATH
Using the value of this key as the visa_base_path add the following to
your VS search directories:
For Executable files:
<visa_base_path>\WinNT\bin
<visa_base_path>\agvisa\agbin
<visa_base_path>\VisaCom