From 698fcf469bde83c9528e1ef90271dfa8628abd02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:09:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Set PYTHONHOME before loading Python, so that sys.path will
 be set correctly.

Already backported.
---
 PC/bdist_wininst/install.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c b/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
index 44a6e0eec8aa..6a9bccb61353 100644
--- a/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
+++ b/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
@@ -613,7 +613,13 @@ static HINSTANCE LoadPythonDll(char *fname)
 	char fullpath[_MAX_PATH];
 	LONG size = sizeof(fullpath);
 	char subkey_name[80];
-	HINSTANCE h = LoadLibrary(fname);
+	char buffer[260 + 12];
+	HINSTANCE h;
+
+	/* make sure PYTHONHOME is set, to that sys.path is initialized correctly */
+	wsprintf(buffer, "PYTHONHOME=%s", python_dir);
+	_putenv(buffer);
+	h = LoadLibrary(fname);
 	if (h)
 		return h;
 	wsprintf(subkey_name,
-- 
2.47.3