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PCAN Basic by Peter - Toolkit for LabVIEW Download

LabVIEW Wrapper for PCAN Basic API

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Version1.0.0.15
ReleasedFeb 19, 2026
Publisher Peter
License MIT
LabVIEW VersionLabVIEW>=20.0
Operating System Windows, Mac, and Linux
Project links Homepage   Repository   Discussion

Description

PCAN-Basic V4 driver wrapper for USB-CAN dongles by PEAK-System on Windows and RT-Linux. Supports event-driven read. Refer to the repository web page for further installation instructions.

NI-RT Linux
Download PCAN Basic for Linux
Copy peak-linux-driver-8.20.0.tar.gz to /home/lvuser/ on real-time target using a FTP client or Webdav
Enter following commands in terminal to build and install pcan linux driver on NI-RT Linux:
cd /home/lvuser
tar -xzf peak-linux-driver-8.20.0.tar.gz
cd peak-linux-driver-8.20.0
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc
sudo cp $(find /lib/modules/ -name "pcan.ko" | head -n 1) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/
sudo find /lib/modules/ -name "pcan.ko" ! -path "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/*" -exec rm {} \;
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe pcan
Note: Errors will appear during build. They arise from missing g++ on NI-RT Linux. You can ignore these.

Windows
Install PCAN Driver 4.6.4 for Windows
Download PCAN Basic API 4 for Windows
From PCAN-Basic_4x.zip copy x86/PCANBasic.dll to /Windows/SysWOW64
From PCAN-Basic_4x.zip copy x64/PCANBasic.dll to /Windows/System32

Release Notes

1.0.0.15 (Feb 19, 2026)

Updated description and logo. Bumped version to LV20.

peter-hamburg was a contributor to this release


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