Python 3.6.15 For Windows XP SP3

[alexfree]

I recently got the latest version of Python 3.6, Python 3.6.15 working on Windows XP SP3. Since Python 3.4 is the latest official version for XP, this allows the use of many more Python programs like YouTube-DLP.

You can get WinXP_Python-3.6.15 on my website.

[gerwin]

Thanks!

Any chance for a pre-build download?

[Montana Slim]

Am I correct in thinking you need Cygwin installed to even run this? Maybe why nobody replied to your reddit winxp post...

[genieautravail]

@cmalex has already compiled Python 3.7 for XP more than one year ago:

As the official release of yt-dlp doesn't works on XP, I'm using this version of python for compiling yt-dlp as a temporary replacement for youtube.dl on XP.

No more issue for downloading from youtube website.

 

[nicolaasjan]

On 1/2/2022 at 10:15 PM, genieautravail said:

@cmalex has already compiled Python 3.7 for XP more than one year ago:

As the official release of yt-dlp doesn't works on XP, I'm using this version of python for compiling yt-dlp as a temporary replacement for youtube.dl on XP.

No more issue for downloading from youtube website.

 

Compiling yt-dlp fails here :

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Bureaublad\yt-dlp-master>python pyinst.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pyinst.py", line 6, in <module>
    from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import collect_submodules
  File "C:\Python37\Lib/site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\hooks\__init__.py", line
 1012, in <module>
    from .gi import *
  File "C:\Python37\Lib/site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\hooks\gi.py", line 16, i
n <module>
    from ...depend.bindepend import findSystemLibrary
  File "C:\Python37\Lib/site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 43,
 in <module>
    import pefile
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pefile'

And then:

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Bureaublad\yt-dlp-master>pip install pefile
Collecting pefile
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ee/e1/a7bd302cf5f74547431
b4e9b206dbef782d112df6b531f193bb4a29fb1b9/pefile-2021.9.3.tar.gz
Collecting future (from pefile)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/45/0b/38b06fd9b92dc2b68d5
8b75f900e97884c45bedd2ff83203d933cf5851c9/future-0.18.2.tar.gz
    ERROR: Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\DOCUME~1\User\LOCALS~1\Temp\pip-install-pvvu2pzh\future\setup
.py", line 86, in <module>
        import src.future
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'src'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\DOCUME~
1\User\LOCALS~1\Temp\pip-install-pvvu2pzh\future\
WARNING: You are using pip version 19.1.1, however version 21.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' comm
and.

How did you get the necessary modules?

Edited February 5, 2022 by nicolaasjan

[nicolaasjan]

However running yt-dlp directly from the source directory works:

python ./yt_dlp/__main__.py -v
[debug] Command-line config: ['-v']
[debug] User config "C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\Application Data\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['-i', '--no-mtime', '--add-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '-o', '~/Bureaublad/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', 'bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out cp1252 (No ANSI), err cp1252 (No ANSI), pref cp1252
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.01.15 [6223f67a8] (source)
[debug] Plugins: ['SamplePluginIE', 'SamplePluginPP']
[debug] Python version 3.7.1 (CPython 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-105053-gc417616-Reino (setts,fdk), ffprobe N-105053-gc417616-Reino
[debug] Optional libraries: mutagen, sqlite, websockets
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: __main__.py [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

__main__.py: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type yt-dlp --help to see a list of all options.

 

[nicolaasjan]

@VistaLover

Any ideas?

[alexfree]

On 1/1/2022 at 8:02 PM, Montana Slim said:

Am I correct in thinking you need Cygwin installed to even run this? Maybe why nobody replied to your reddit winxp post...

Not neccesarily, it should be possible to copy the required cygwin dlls into the same directory as the the python3.6m.exe

[alexfree]

On 1/16/2022 at 3:14 AM, nicolaasjan said:

@VistaLover

Any ideas?

I had no issues using dlp with my python. Also the 3.6.15 is newer then 3.7.1 from a year ago (not in version number but release date).

[nicolaasjan]

On 2/28/2022 at 1:05 AM, alexfree said:

I had no issues using dlp with my python. Also the 3.6.15 is newer then 3.7.1 from a year ago (not in version number but release date).

Finally got it working.

Just copied over the entire 'Lib' and 'Scripts' directories from a Python 3.7 x86 install on Windows Vista (with Pyinstaller 3.5).

Only had to omit the websockets module because of an error (edited the file 'pyinst.py' in the source).

[debug] Command-line config: ['-vU']
[debug] User config "C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\Application Data\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--no-mtime', '--add-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--ppa', 'ffmpeg:-metadata synopsis=""', '-o', '~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-f', 'bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4][vcodec!*=av01]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best', '--downloader', 'aria2c', '--downloader-args', 'aria2c:-x 10 -s 10 -j 10 -k 1M --log-level=info --file-allocation=none']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT)
[debug] yt-dlp version 2022.06.24 [379a4f161] (win32_exe)
[debug] Python version 3.7.1 (CPython 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
[debug] Checking exe version: ffmpeg -bsfs
[debug] Checking exe version: ffprobe -bsfs
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-106824-gf3b7ba2-Reino (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-106824-gf3b7ba2-Reino
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.15.0, brotli-1.0.9, certifi-2022.06.15, mutagen-1.45.1, sqlite3-2.6.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Fetching release info: https://api.github.com/repos/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest
Latest version: 2022.06.22.1, Current version: 2022.06.24
yt-dlp is up to date (2022.06.24)

[Edit]

Dropped 3.7 in favour of 3.8. 🙂

Link in my signature now points to yt-dlp built with Python 3.8.

See this thread.

 

Edited February 9, 2023 by nicolaasjan

[Zorba the Geek]

The link to alexfree's website where you can obtain the source code is broken, so I have uploaded it to my 4Shared account from where you can download it at the following links

File: winxp_python3.6.15-src.zip (4Shared)
File: winxp_python3.6.15-src.zip (Google Drive)

MD5: 4CAE917675AE7F91F03808F026EA619C
SHA-1: 2668E14644007B6A15EF1201E8741353C36CDDFF
SHA-256: 0F564388025A843DEFF31AC8AA4CE808369D160D4C417BF0ED53249D04EA38B6
Release date: 26/12/2021
Size: 27.6 MB

I have succeeded in compiling it according to the instructions given in readme.txt, and I would be interested in reading about other people's experience of doing the compile.

I am mainly concerned about identifying where are the components of this Python 3.6 are located because as far as I can tell they are scattered around both Cygwin and the source folder.  Once I identify them I ought to be able to assemble them into a package that can be archived or shared.  As far as I can tell this python can be run outside of Cygwin as it is linked to a few Cygwin dlls such as Cygwin1.dll, Cygintl-8dll and Cyggcc_5-1.dll which can be included in the distribution.

Note: 4Shared is blocked in the UK.  Use VPN servers located in the United States or the Netherlands.

Edited October 26 by Zorba the Geek

[Zorba the Geek]

II have assembled the compiled Python modules and their Cygwin dependencies into a working Python distribution that you may like to try.

File: Python Cygwin 3.6 For WinXP.zip (4Shared)
File: Python Cygwin 3.6 For WinXP.zip (Google Drive)

MD5: 03FE603F49192CC85B5B6A3F25A15E93
SHA-1: 7C22DA570A0ACD653E4AEF772E684B810E135ED8
SHA-256: D6CA468E4FDBB604DECB36EBE664958FA7C8273388A10D03A999EDAD3882A41C
Build date: 25/04/2023
Size: 28.9 MB

Of course the minimum 3.x Python version required in the latest applications is 3.7, so a new source code would have to be released to make an XP compatible build under Cygwin.  I may contact the developer to request a new 3.7 build or else give instructions on how to create a 3.7 source.

Note: 4Shared is blocked in the UK.  Use VPN servers located in the United States or the Netherlands.