build python from source?

[edbordin]

Currently on windows we're linking against the mingw python provided by msys2 which doesn't provide a static lib. Darwin is statically linking against conda which is not exactly a minimal python installation. Linux is statically linking against the lib from the ubuntu package and currently extracting scripts from some .deb packages in the repo.

To get a static lib and minimal set of standard library scripts/modules it looks like building python from source is a good option. Building for MinGW might be slightly more complicated - MSYS2 maintains a fairly large set of patches to make it work https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python