Leonard Lausen

For the binary distribution I suggest to use another set of config files. Please take a look at https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/17448

`cmake -C ../config.cmake` didn't exist previously, in that sense we don't break the default behavior. The config file is a new feature in MXNet 1.7 and we're free to set...

I plan to merge this after the static build instructions are improved.

As the staticbuild is now easy to do via `python ci/build.py --platform centos7_cpu /work/runtime_functions.sh build_static_libmxnet cpu`, this PR is ready

@mxnet-bot run ci [windows-gpu]

Could you rebase on latest master to fix the CI issues? Thanks

@mxnet-bot run ci [all]

@mxnet-bot run ci [unix-cpu]

@mxnet-bot run ci [unix-cpu]

@chinakook instead of handling some peculiar windows encodings in the Python frontend, would it make sense to change the C API to always use unicode instead of some platform defaults?...