Hi,

I've followed the build instructions to get a statically linked Python library in windows. The compilation works great and I get a big fat statically linked .lib file. 

When I use it and in my code I call Py_Initialize() the program aborts and I get this error:

Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: unable to load the file system codec
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

It seems that python is looking for encodings on the file system instead of looking for the built-in one since if I do Py_SetPythonHome(L"C:\\Python37.0-x64"); before calling Py_Initialize it works fine. 

Why is Python looking for external modules when it is a statically linked library and encodings should be built-in?

How can I indicate Python to look for the modules in itself and not externally?

Regards