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by remram 1658 days ago
PSA: If you distribute this kind of software, be ready to deal with many antivirus issues. [1] has helped but it's still a very manual and frustrating process on every release.

[1]: https://github.com/hankhank10/false-positive-malware-reporti...

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I have found that a useful way to evade antivirus issues with PyInstaller is to build my own copy of the bootloader and encourage use of the 64 bit version over the 32 bit version (since most malware will use the 32 bit version to infect the most computers).

I have a GitHub CI job which is able to automate the process for each release. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim/blob/master/.g...