Documentation needed for compiling Nudenet

[ssj17vegeta]

Hello fellow developer !

There's no documentation provided in the README about the tools and the procedure needed to to compile screen-detect-nude.py, especially since most of the people coming here won't necessarily be Python or DotNet experts (like me who's more of a Godot dev and have zero experience in developing on Windows 😄 ).

So far I guessed :

• You need to install Python (no version provided, so I took the latest, 3.13.2) with Pip.
• Trying to pip install auto-py-to-exe from the get go will get you nowhere since you first need to install the requirements (the program complains about the cv2 module missing).
• You need to bash in the nudenet directory and type "pip install -r requirements.txt"
• Here you will encounter a variety of challenges : the package "wheel" (a dependency of a dependency listed in the requirements), requires an incredibly enormous download (6GB) to be able to compile : Visual C++ build tools 2017 ( which you can find at https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_buildtools.exe ).
• Once it's fixed, it goes a bit further. I'm encountering this error : ..\meson.build:32:4: ERROR: Problem encountered: NumPy requires at least vc142 (default with Visual Studio 2019) when building with MSVC_* . So I guess it also requires two different versions installed in the same time ?

I admit I gave up there after 3 hours.

Providing the executable for screen-detect-nude in the Releases section could also be an interesting alternative for people who don't intend to modify the script and test your application as-is.

[PerfectFox265]

I'm sorry you had trouble. All you problems would be solved if I had written somewhere : use python 3.11

For the nudenet build :
You can download it from the itch.io page of the game. and paste the nudenet folder inside your Godot project.
OR
You can build it yourself :

• Install python 3.11.2 (with pip)
• Type in terminal pip install -r requirements.txt
• Type auto-py-to-exe This will open a local web browser.
• In "Script Location" select the 'screen-detect-nude.py' file
• In Additionnal Files > Add Files : select best.onnx
• Click "Convert .py to .exe"

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Here you will encounter a variety of challenges : the package "wheel" (a dependency of a dependency listed in the requirements), requires an incredibly enormous download (6GB) to be able to compile : Visual C++ build tools 2017 ( which you can find at https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_buildtools.exe ).

This is because the versions of the libs in requirements.txt are not available for python 3.13 so you had to compile them yourself.