BUILD.md

Table of Contents

• Platforms
• Getting the Source Code
• Dependencies
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
• Compiling
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS

Platforms

VAE supports the following platforms:

Operating System	Supported Versions	Architecture
Windows	11, 10, 8.1, 8	64-bit
Linux	Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 41, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE	64-bit
macOS	macOS 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10.15	ARM64

Windows 7 is technically supported, but you need PyInstaller 4.10.

Getting the Source Code

• Download the zip archive from the latest release. Source code (zip)

Dependencies

You need the following to compile VAE:

• Python 3.10+
• PyInstaller 6.11.1+
• Py7zr 0.22.0+
• RarFile 4.2+

Linux Dependencies

For Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip python3-venv

For Fedora:

sudo dnf install -y python3 python3-pip python3-virtualenv

For Arch:

sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm python-pip python-virtualenv

For OpenSUSE:

sudo zypper install -y python3 python3-pip python3-virtualenv

Compiling

Windows

In Command Prompt:

cd VAE
py -m venv .venv
.venv/Scripts/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onedir --console --icon "Src/Icon/VAE.ico" --name "VAE" --clean --optimize "2" --version-file "version.txt" --add-data "Src/extract_addons.py;." --add-data "Src/extract_archives.py;." --add-data "Src/utils.py;." --add-data "Src/Bin;Bin/"  "Src/cli.py"
Copy-Item -Path "Src/Bin" -Destination "dist/VAE" -Recurse

Linux/macOS

In Terminal:

cd VAE
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onedir --console --name "VAE" --strip --clean --optimize "2" --add-data "Src/extract_addons.py:." --add-data "Src/extract_archives.py:." --add-data "Src/utils.py:." --add-data "Src/Bin:Bin/"  "Src/cli.py"
cp -r Src/Bin dist/VAE