Steve Dower added the comment:
> Does a statically built Windows python.exe support C extension modules at all?
I've given this some thought in the past, and I suspect the answer is "no"
unless you were to also statically link the extension modules into the same
executable (which will likely
New submission from Maarten :
`PCbuild/readme.txt` contains a little paragraph about how to build a static
python library.
The resulting static `python.lib` library contains all python C API functions.
Windows DLL's don't allow missing symbols, so C extensions modules must link
with a library
