[Question][DEV] Can you please help me build youtube-dl into an EXE locally?

[Artanisx]

Hello there.
I've started working on a couple of new extractors

I'd like to build youtube-dl on my local pc, into an EXE file. I've tried using py2exe, but unfortunately it is not compatibile with Python 3.7.

I'm assuming there are other ways (unless youtube-dl is indeed developped in a previous python version) to compile it successfully. I checked some of them, but I've always encountered a lot of errors.

In the README you mention using MAKE, could you please point me in the right direction? I've never used it.

I'm on Windows by the way.

Thanks!

[ealgase]

youtube-dl is compatible with Python 2.6+ and with Python 3.2+.

[dstftw]

py2exe only supports python 3.4, you'll have to build exe against this version.

[Artanisx]

Understood. Thanks! :)