National Instruments NI-488.2 - Manual (Page 51)

Chapter 4 Developing Your NI-488.2 Application
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Language-Specific Programming Instructions for
Windows
The following sections describe how to develop, compile, and link your
Windows NI-488.2 applications using various programming languages.
Microsoft Visual C/C++ (Version 6.0 or Later)
Before you compile your application, include the following line at the
beginning of your program:
#include "ni4882.h"
The "NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP" environment variable is provided as an
alias to the location of C language support files. You can use this variable
when compiling and linking an application.
With Microsoft Visual C++ (Version 6.0 or higher), to compile and link a
Win32 console application named
cprog in a DOS shell using the
environment variable, "NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP" , type in the following on
the command line:
cl /I"%NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP%\include" cprog.c
"%NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP%\lib32\msvc\ni4882.obj" /MD
With Microsoft Visual C++ (Version 8.0 or higher), to compile and link a
Win64 console application named
cprog in a DOS shell using the
environment variable, "NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP" , type in the following on
the command line:
cl /I"%NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP%\include" cprog.c
"%NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP%\lib64\msvc\ni4882.obj" /MD
Borland C/C++ (Version 5.0.2 or Later)
Before you compile your Win32 C application, make sure that the
following line is included at the beginning of your program:
#include "ni4882.h"
The "NIEXTCCOMPILERSUPP" environment variable is provided as an
alias to the location of C language support files. You can use this variable
when compiling and linking an application.