Windows Portable

[Filarius]

So idea is to make archive what you can unpack at any PC with Windows OS (possibly 10+) and just run without need to download anything.
Lets say i have folder with SD i already use on my PC.
PLace Python 10 and Git-portable in SD folder.
And edit .BAT file, make sure folders named and places so paths are valid, or change paths same as your folders.

set PYTHON=python\python
set GIT=git\bin\git
set VENV_DIR=venv

But web-ui still trying to download files into
C:\Users\user\.cache\

gdown
huggingface

So its stops me to make it really portable.

also, if you do not use full precision I made script who convert SD checkpoint file from float32 to float16, its saves 2 Gb of disk space and a bit time on startup. This do NO notable difference on speed of image generation

import torch
model = torch.load("model.ckpt")
for x in model['state_dict'].keys():
    model['state_dict'][x] = model['state_dict'][x].to(torch.float16)
torch.save(model,"model_f16.ckpt")

In some cases you also need to install "Visual C++ Redistributable", but usually your PC already have this after some software or games installed before.

[Kallamamran]

Making it portable is a good idea. Don't know why it isn't allready when we have a venv-folder!?

[ClashSAN]

because you need python installed to run python -m venv venv and it will create the exact version from your computer. I don't know what happens if you just include a python venv folder in the repository and start using that..

[aliencaocao]

You can use pyinstaller for that and it has options to include extra binary files like the hugging face models and checkpoints. Actually I will try doing it someday.

[MagicJack]

virtual environment created by python -m venv venv will only run with exact that venv path.
You can not move/rename that venv folder, so it should be wraped by some other virtualization tech. to make it portable.
Maybe docker is a good option.

[Graylington]

Portable version would be very useful, especially in my API use case. Not requiring the user to install everything from scratch would be incredible.

[bryanray]

Portable version would be very useful,

[CapsAdmin]

In case other quirks show up, a few years ago I made a cmd script to let you run spleeter on windows without needing to manually installing anything. It still works (tried in a windows 11 vm)

(spleeter is a library that lets you split audio into multiple tracks)

https://gist.github.com/CapsAdmin/c55ef9bd20f012ae2e79fa3e838fa0f1

You put it in a directory and it downloads python, ffmpeg and pip to be used locally within that directory. Venv kinda makes it easier I guess.

[MagicJack]

No, they are not the same things.
For this project we need:

1. a project forder for codes in this page, this can be any where so it's easy part.
2. a python venv forder to install all the required python packages, that must to be a fixed location.
   • It's OK for linux/macOS platform, cause there's a root location /
   • But, it's not OK for windows platform, cause there're drive A:~Z:, and users may have various amount of drives with various drive name.

One possible way to overcome this (item 2.b) we may use mklink command to make a symbolic link to C: drive. But we still need to download every python package before the portable APP to run. they require 5GBi disk spaces. So, the APP will be very huge.
It may be possible if we have a script to make it portable by user themself after they've installed all the python packages.

Also, we still have various Models, Loras, output folder, log folder, ... to be located on the portable drive.

[MagicJack]

Oh...
I was wrong!! python can not make a symbolic link folder to be a venv folder.

d:
cd \
mkdir src
mklink /d dest src
cd dest
python -m venv .

result:

Error: Unable to create directory 'D:\\dest'

check it on d:\src

cd d:\src
python -m venv .

result OK.

[0-NiK-0]

Portable Stable Diffusion AUTOMATIC1111
https://github.com/serpotapov/stable-diffusion-portable

[MagicJack]

No, this is not portable.
It's a easy install version.
You can not install it on USB and play on another NB or PC. (if the disk driver: is not same as the original one)

But, anyway it's good for a novice.

Thank you for your hard working.

[fcore117]

Thank you, now this should be official as this is really easy. Why torture everyone hardly when it can be made easy. Thank you for semi-portable easy Stable Diffusion.