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Limitations of Legacy SEAL Kit Software
The legacy SEAL Kit software has several limitations which will be discussed below. The SEAL Kit software can be installed from here.
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Will only run on Windows 7 32-bit
This indicates that the program was most likely compiled to run on 32-bit computers ONLY. When tested with Windows 7 64-bit the program would not run due to an significant amount of missing
DLLs. Even when theDLLswere added to the OS manually, the program still did not work properly. Only after the program was run on 32-bit version of Windows 7 did the program begin to operate as intended.It might be possible to recompile a 64-bit version — since we have the source code — given this is not a limitation with MATLAB itself (referring to
MATLAB R2012a, I assume that modern versions of MATLAB support 64-bit 😉). But the next limitation makes this option as a path to updating the software for compatibility with newer operating systems quite difficult. -
Requires archaic National Instruments drivers to function, which can be installed from here. More info on the drivers can be found here.
These drivers most likely are not compatible with modern operating systems and there appears to be no support for MacOS. Additionally, drivers are a pain in butt to setup. Ideally, all the required software would be self-contained in the program as opposed to making the user download all this software. Or at the very least automatically install all the required drivers upon the initial installation of the program.