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+# reforgePortable
+Experimenting to build a portable version of stable-diffusion-webui-reForge
+This version uses the official Python embeddable package which seems to be pretty barebone and showed some issue with
+some files not being in the directory that the UI requirements setup process expected them to be, so make sure to move
+then appropriately!
+
+***
+## Prerequisites
+Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable  
+https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145  
+Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable  
+https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022  
+
+***
+## Prepare folders
+1) Create folder C:\SD\reforge-portable
+2) Create subfolder C:\SD\reforge-portable\system
+3) Create subfolder C:\SD\reforge-portable\system\git
+4) Create subfolder C:\SD\reforge-portable\system\python
+
+![folder-2](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9a902582-fad3-4221-8246-d4874aeb4b66)
+
+***
+## Install Git portable
+Browse to https://git-scm.com/downloads/win and download "64-bit Git for Windows Portable"  
+![git-download-1](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1eaf8d60-2e0e-4775-9082-6b4934d42462)
+
+Execute downloaded exe file and extract to C:\SD\reforge-portable\system\git  
+![git-install-1](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/03520868-5b3d-421f-9a37-d813719175bf)
+
+***
+## Install Python embeddable package
+Browse to https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-31011/ and download "Windows embeddable package (64-bit)"
+![python-download-1](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/732008ca-1d28-4320-8390-8e5ed4f7e028)
+
+Extract downloaded zip file to C:\SD\reforge-portable\system\python  
+![python-install-1](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/50813c74-9c37-48fb-911a-269fe4940197)
+
+Create subfolder C:\SD\reforge-portable\system\python\DLLs and move the following files from the python directory into this folder  
+![python-install-2](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eb2a19ce-8ae0-4350-bca4-27f639f9cdb1)
+
+Delete the file "python310._pth" from the C:\SD\reforge-portable\system\python directory  
+![python-install-4](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9c224be6-cd0f-42a5-97d6-4c031ee6f023)
+
+***
+## Install get-pip.py script
+Browse to https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ (Github: https://github.com/pypa/get-pip) and download [get-pip.py](https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py) into C:\SD\reforge-portable\system\python 
+![python-install-3](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0c9b4587-ad45-4310-a497-4034dfb2f762)
+
+***
+## Get run scripts
+- Either download the full [Forge portable zip](https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-forge) 
+and extract only the 3 bat files from the root
+- or download them from my github here [/runscipts/](runscripts/)
+
+Copy these three files into C:\SD\reforge-portable  
+![webui-install-1](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/13d732b1-767a-41bd-acde-8b49c04e8a8d)
+
+***
+## Git clone reForge
+Open cmd.exe in C:\SD\reforge-portable.
+1) Run environment.bat
+2) Run `git clone https://github.com/Panchovix/stable-diffusion-webui-reForge webui`
+
+![webui-install-2](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cc1df314-fa1e-4323-b164-106be01e8220)
+
+***
+## First-run
+Run `run.bat`. This should now start the normal reForge requirements installations which may take quite a while  
+![webui-install-3](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/da8c3cb4-792c-46f7-82ee-5515eba77cf1)
+
+If everything goes well the webUI page will open after everything is complete.