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[Windows] Portable youtube-dl with separate python executable #12588
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I am trying to embed
youtube-dlin a Windows application with youtube-dl-only/frequent auto-update mechanism, so youtube-dl.exe has to be both portable (Windows 7+ compatibility) and easily auto-updatable (faster update frequency than the application itself).Embedding and updating the official
youtube-dl.exe(and puttingmsvcr100.dllin the same folder) works like a charm. However, because of the fact that python is included in the exe, the auto-update redownload 7MB each time there is a youtube-dl release.I was wondering if someone could give some advice to separate python and youtube-dl (so only youtube-dl is updated every few days). Again, python has to be entirely shipped with the app and work on Windows 7+, 32 and 64-bit.
I couldn't find portable python 2.7 exe (it only comes as a huge installer), and I'm not sure WinPython is the right way to go (and it's still ~25MB).
Any tips welcome, thanks!