run ./build.sh in git-bash to build + upload the exe


## ============================================================
## first-time setup on a stock win7x32sp1 and/or win10x64 vm:
## 

to obtain the files referenced below, see ./deps.txt

download + install git (32bit OK on 64):
http://192.168.123.1:3923/ro/pyi/Git-2.39.1-32-bit.exe

===[ copy-paste into git-bash ]================================
uname -s | grep NT-10 && w10=1 || {
  w7=1; uname -s | grep WOW64 && w7x64=1 || w7x32=1
}
fns=(
  altgraph-0.17.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  pefile-2023.2.7-py3-none-any.whl
  pyinstaller-5.8.0-py3-none-win_amd64.whl
  pyinstaller_hooks_contrib-2023.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  pywin32_ctypes-0.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  upx-4.0.2-win32.zip
)
[ $w10 ] && fns+=(
  mutagen-1.46.0-py3-none-any.whl
  Pillow-9.4.0-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl
  python-3.11.2-amd64.exe
}
[ $w7 ] && fns+=(
  certifi-2022.12.7-py3-none-any.whl
  chardet-5.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
  idna-3.4-py3-none-any.whl
  requests-2.28.2-py3-none-any.whl
  urllib3-1.26.14-py2.py3-none-any.whl
)
[ $w7 ] && fns+=(
  future-0.18.2.tar.gz
  importlib_metadata-5.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
  pip-22.3-py3-none-any.whl
  typing_extensions-4.4.0-py3-none-any.whl
  zipp-3.10.0-py3-none-any.whl
)
[ $w7x64 ] && fns+=(
  windows6.1-kb2533623-x64.msu
  pyinstaller-5.8.0-py3-none-win_amd64.whl
  python-3.7.9-amd64.exe
)
[ $w7x32 ] && fns+=(
  windows6.1-kb2533623-x86.msu
  pyinstaller-5.8.0-py3-none-win32.whl
  python-3.7.9.exe
)
dl() { curl -fkLOC- "$1" && return 0; echo "$1"; return 1; }
cd ~/Downloads &&
for fn in "${fns[@]}"; do
  dl "https://192.168.123.1:3923/ro/pyi/$fn" || {
    echo ERROR; ok=; break
  }
done

manually install:
  windows6.1-kb2533623 + reboot
  python-3.7.9

===[ copy-paste into git-bash ]================================
uname -s | grep NT-10 && w10=1 || w7=1
[ $w7 ] && pyv=37 || pyv=311
appd=$(cygpath.exe "$APPDATA")
cd ~/Downloads &&
unzip upx-*-win32.zip &&
mv upx-*/upx.exe . &&
python -m ensurepip &&
python -m pip install --user -U pip-*.whl &&
{ [ $w7 ] || python -m pip install --user -U mutagen-*.whl Pillow-*.whl; } &&
{ [ $w10 ] || python -m pip install --user -U {requests,urllib3,charset_normalizer,certifi,idna}-*.whl; } &&
{ [ $w10 ] || python -m pip install --user -U future-*.tar.gz importlib_metadata-*.whl typing_extensions-*.whl zipp-*.whl; } &&
python -m pip install --user -U pyinstaller-*.whl pefile-*.whl pywin32_ctypes-*.whl pyinstaller_hooks_contrib-*.whl altgraph-*.whl &&
sed -ri 's/--lzma/--best/' $appd/Python/Python$pyv/site-packages/pyinstaller/building/utils.py &&
curl -fkLO https://192.168.123.1:3923/cpp/scripts/uncomment.py &&
python uncomment.py $(for d in $appd/Python/Python$pyv/site-packages/{requests,urllib3,charset_normalizer,certifi,idna}; do find $d -name \*.py; done) &&
cd &&
rm -f build.sh &&
curl -fkLO https://192.168.123.1:3923/cpp/scripts/pyinstaller/build.sh &&
curl -fkLO https://192.168.123.1:3923/cpp/scripts/pyinstaller/up2k.sh &&
echo ok
# python -m pip install --user -U Pillow-9.2.0-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl
# sed -ri 's/, bestopt, /]+bestopt+[/' $APPDATA/Python/Python37/site-packages/pyinstaller/building/utils.py
# sed -ri 's/(^\s+bestopt = ).*/\1["--best","--lzma","--ultra-brute"]/' $APPDATA/Python/Python37/site-packages/pyinstaller/building/utils.py

===[ win10: copy-paste into git-bash ]=========================
#for f in $appd/Python/Python311/site-packages/mutagen/*.py; do awk -i inplace '/^\s*def _?(save|write)/{sub(/d.*/,"    ");s=$0;ns=length(s)} ns&&/[^ ]/&&substr($0,0,ns)!=s{ns=0} !ns' "$f"; done &&
python uncomment.py $appd/Python/Python311/site-packages/{mutagen,PIL,jinja2,markupsafe}/*.py &&
echo ok


## ============================================================
## notes
##

size   t-unpack  virustotal                     cmnt
8059k  0m0.375s  5/70 generic-only, sandbox-ok  no-upx
7095k  0m0.563s  4/70 generic-only, sandbox-ok  standard-upx
6958k  0m0.578s  7/70 generic-only, sandbox-ok  upx+upx

use python 3.7 since 3.8 onwards requires KB2533623 on target

generate loader.rc template:
%appdata%\python\python37\scripts\pyi-grab_version C:\Users\ed\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.exe