make: *** [youtube-dl] Error 127

[ComputerUser-CU]

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I am trying to build a youtube-dl binary on my local machine by using the make command as per phihag's post here. However, I'm getting the following:

BigAppa@DESKTOP-UOLLR4C MINGW64 ~/youtube-dl
$ make
FIND: Parameter format not correct
mkdir -p zip
for d in youtube_dl youtube_dl/downloader youtube_dl/extractor youtube_dl/postprocessor ; do
mkdir -p zip/$d ;
cp -pPR $d/.py zip/$d/ ;
done
touch -t 200001010101 zip/youtube_dl/.py zip/youtube_dl//.py
mv zip/youtube_dl/main.py zip/
cd zip ; zip -q ../youtube-dl youtube_dl/.py youtube_dl//*.py main.py
/usr/bin/sh: zip: command not found
make: *** [youtube-dl] Error 127

Instead of make, I also tried make youtube-dl. However, the results weren't any different:

BigAppa@DESKTOP-UOLLR4C MINGW64 ~/youtube-dl
$ make youtube-dl
FIND: Parameter format not correct
mkdir -p zip
for d in youtube_dl youtube_dl/downloader youtube_dl/extractor youtube_dl/postprocessor ; do
mkdir -p zip/$d ;
cp -pPR $d/.py zip/$d/ ;
done
touch -t 200001010101 zip/youtube_dl/.py zip/youtube_dl//.py
mv zip/youtube_dl/main.py zip/
cd zip ; zip -q ../youtube-dl youtube_dl/.py youtube_dl//*.py main.py
/usr/bin/sh: zip: command not found
make: *** [youtube-dl] Error 127

Kindly suggest a possible solution. I got a FFMEG malformed AAC bitstream error when I downloaded a video with youtube-dl source alone, without ffmpeg files in youtube clone directory on local machine. To not let the issue recur, I wish to build a local youtube-dl.exe and place it in the same folder as ffmpeg files.

[dstftw]

Search py2exe.

[ComputerUser-CU]

For those who visit this thread in search of an answer, inspired by @dstftw, I (partially) solved my predicament by following the following steps:

1. Installed Python 3.4 in addition to Python 3.7 which I already had running on my machine. Python 3.4 was necessary for me because py2exe is supported only up to Python 3.4.
2. Now, I closed all Git Bash terminals.
3. Then I opened a fresh Git Bash terminal. (Step 2 above is necessary. Without it, Python 3.4 may not become available to Git Bash.)
4. To install py2exe, I ran this command on Git Bash terminal: py -3.4 -m pip install py2exe
5. Then, I navigated to the youtube-dl clone location by running this command on Git Bash terminal: cd youtube-dl
6. Now, to create the EXE file, I ran this command: py -3.4 -m py2exe.build_exe setup.py

Your exe would be generated in the \youtube-dl\dist folder as setup.exe.

P.S.: I couldn't get this setup.exe to behave as a true youtube-dl.exe binary that is otherwise made available to us by the youtube-dl team. So please don't get your hopes high. However, I would be immensely happy if you could take anything out of the above mentioned process and build a fully functional EXE. Please do share the corrections needed in the above process for others benefit too.

[remitamine]

Now, to create the EXE file, I ran this command: py -3.4 -m py2exe.build_exe setup.py

I think that the command that you're looking for is py -3.4 setup.py py2exe.

[RobertusIT]

Now, to create the EXE file, I ran this command: py -3.4 -m py2exe.build_exe setup.py

I think that the command that you're looking for is py -3.4 setup.py py2exe.

For those who visit this thread in search of an answer, inspired by @dstftw, I (partially) solved my predicament by following the following steps:

1. Installed Python 3.4 in addition to Python 3.7 which I already had running on my machine. Python 3.4 was necessary for me because py2exe is supported only up to Python 3.4.
2. Now, I closed all Git Bash terminals.
3. Then I opened a fresh Git Bash terminal. (Step 2 above is necessary. Without it, Python 3.4 may not become available to Git Bash.)
4. To install py2exe, I ran this command on Git Bash terminal: py -3.4 -m pip install py2exe
5. Then, I navigated to the youtube-dl clone location by running this command on Git Bash terminal: cd youtube-dl
6. Now, to create the EXE file, I ran this command: py -3.4 -m py2exe.build_exe setup.py

Your exe would be generated in the \youtube-dl\dist folder as setup.exe.

P.S.: I couldn't get this setup.exe to behave as a true youtube-dl.exe binary that is otherwise made available to us by the youtube-dl team. So please don't get your hopes high. However, I would be immensely happy if you could take anything out of the above mentioned process and build a fully functional EXE. Please do share the corrections needed in the above process for others benefit too.

**Please can you help me?

I have tried without success to compile this youttube-dl and have an exe that works ( i need it with a** raiplay fix, and last build doesn't have it )

ubuntu@ubuntu:/youtube-dl$ py -3.4 -m pip install py2exe
/usr/bin/py:16: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3, and in 3.9 it will stop working
from collections import Iterable
usage: py [-x] [-l] [-c PRE_CMD] [-C POST_CMD] [-V] [-h] [expression]
py: error: unrecognized arguments: -m pip install py2exe
ubuntu@ubuntu:/youtube-dl$ py -3.4 setup.py py2exe
/usr/bin/py:16: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3, and in 3.9 it will stop working
from collections import Iterable
usage: py [-x] [-l] [-c PRE_CMD] [-C POST_CMD] [-V] [-h] [expression]
py: error: unrecognized arguments: setup.py py2exe