> > I need to build a statically linked Python that has pip. > > What a curious thing to need.
In the old days that was the only way to build Python. I guess we were just more curious back then. :-) To the OP, as Thomas pointed out, you're going to have to identify all the extension modules you need. You will then need to update Modules/Setup to direct building those modules. The comment at the top of that file tells you how to get a particular module to be statically linked. If you can run your application in an environment which supports dynamically linked extension modules, you can probably get a good part of the way there by running the application, then examining it at runtime (e.g., with lsof on Linux) to see which shared modules have been loaded. Curiously yours, Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
