Who here has a Youtube-DL compile for WinXP?

[VistaLover]

3 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

I have no idea how that might have happened...

... Well, this isn't a very reassuring answer, you do realise that  ...

3 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

What is that file supposed to do.

Don't know ; perhaps @user57 is on the right track on this  (or even @cmalex, safe may he be, knows more  ); the question to be asked is why did it magically appear in the latest yt-dlp WinXP compiles, whereas it wasn't present (needed?) all that time before? ...

3 hours ago, nicolaasjan said:

Can it do any harm?

Can't tell; my AV solution gave it a "clean bill of health"  ; you can try to see if the WinXP packages launch and function OK WITHOUT it, then take the necessary steps to remove it altogether; I'm not being paranoid (I think ), but I'd rather not have it there, if it isn't indispensable...

Best festive wishes ...

[nicolaasjan]

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I'm hesitant to build with the "modern" PyInstaller on XP.

I did it for testing (manually applying 3dyd's changes to the source of official PyInstaller 6.17.0) and converting into a wheel (built with 32bit toolchain from here on Windows 10).

pyinstaller-6.17.0-py3-none-any.whl  (for XP)

pyinst-6.17.0_yt-dlp_x86_XP.7z

Edited Monday at 06:27 PM by nicolaasjan

[VistaLover]

On 11/30/2025 at 9:16 AM, nicolaasjan said:

(waiting for 6.17.0 now...)

On 12/1/2025 at 7:36 PM, nicolaasjan said:

I did it for testing (manually applying 3dyd's changes to the source of official PyInstaller 6.17.0) and converting into a wheel (built with 32bit toolchain from here on Windows 10).

pyinstaller-6.17.0-py3-none-any.whl  (for XP)

On 11/30/2025 at 12:51 AM, VistaLover said:

For the Vista+(aka Win7) builds, your PyInstaller fork v6.17 came just in time  : 

https://github.com/nicolaasjan/pyinstaller-builds/releases/tag/6.17.0

New 6.17.0 releases by 3dyd  (and it's a shame every new release overwrites the previous one  ; not a good practice if "things" break and one needs to revert ) :

https://3dyd.github.io/pyinstaller-builds/