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> ... current release on windows is broken ... You grumble and give up No, you just scroll further down on the GitHub releases page (or whatever) and grab an o
by electroly 3y ago
> ... current release on windows is broken ... You grumble and give up
No, you just scroll further down on the GitHub releases page (or whatever) and grab an older version that does work, same as every other platform.
For yt-dlp in particular, on a recent x64 or ARM64 kernel you could grab the precompiled Linux binaries and skip the compile the same way, if you wanted. They ship self-contained static linked binaries on Linux.
- andrewprock 3y agoThis software is written in Python. You don't have to compile it.
- electroly 3y agoYes, I know; they use pyinstaller to distribute binaries. You can get the source but setting up a working Python environment is the same problem that OP is complaining about; they don't want to do that. You can avoid it by taking the self-contained release build just like Windows users do. yt-dlp does a really great job on this.