Windows binary out of date

[mandarl]

The .exe seems to be out of date. I am facing "September 2012" issue with the exe.

Also, there used to be a single .py file (youtube-dl.py) in the root folder. I used to use that file on windows. But, it seems to have been removed.

[Tailszefox]

You can still get the single Python file on the download page, the only difference is that it's a zip file, but it's transparent to Python. No need to uncompress it, just execute it using python youtube-dl and you should be good to go.

There's an entry in the Makefile to create an up-to-date executable Windows file as well, though for me it produces an exe I can't launch neither with Wine (there's a bunch of ImportError) nor on a native Windows, which throws a Runtime error from Visual C++. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong there.

[mandarl]

Awesome! .. the zip works perfectly .. didn't know this about python. Thanks @Tailszefox.

[FiloSottile]

@Tailszefox Wow, you are the first that run make exe by himself and came back to tell it ;)
The fact is that the exe needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package and I am not good enough to bundle it in one file.

You can download the Package here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29

Updating the exe.

[Tailszefox]

@FiloSottile Ah, weird! I suppose most people using Linux don't need to compile a Windows version.

And yep, installing the package makes the exe I compiled work and able to download the videos. I had to make a few changes to wine-py2exe.sh to get it not to exit with an error, but other than that, it's all good now, thanks!