diff --git a/source3/smbd/pysmbd.c b/source3/smbd/pysmbd.c
index be30b866e20..daaf95cb665 100644
--- a/source3/smbd/pysmbd.c
+++ b/source3/smbd/pysmbd.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 #include <Python.h>
 #include "includes.h"
+#include "python/py3compat.h"
 #include "smbd/smbd.h"
 #include "libcli/util/pyerrors.h"
 #include "librpc/rpc/pyrpc_util.h"
@@ -739,13 +740,19 @@ static PyMethodDef py_smbd_methods[] = {
 };
 
 void initsmbd(void);
-void initsmbd(void)
+
+static struct PyModuleDef moduledef = {
+    PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
+    .m_name = "smbd",
+    .m_doc = "Python bindings for the smbd file server.",
+    .m_size = -1,
+    .m_methods = py_smbd_methods,
+};
+
+MODULE_INIT_FUNC(smbd)
 {
-	PyObject *m;
-
-	m = Py_InitModule3("smbd", py_smbd_methods,
-			   "Python bindings for the smbd file server.");
-	if (m == NULL)
-		return;
+	PyObject *m = NULL;
 
+	m = PyModule_Create(&moduledef);
+	return m;
 }
diff --git a/source3/wscript_build b/source3/wscript_build
index 254738e69ea..f0eb23cc3f7 100644
--- a/source3/wscript_build
+++ b/source3/wscript_build
@@ -1296,7 +1296,9 @@ bld.SAMBA3_BINARY('vlp',
                       ''',
                  install=False)
 
-bld.SAMBA3_PYTHON('pysmbd',
+
+for env in bld.gen_python_environments():
+    bld.SAMBA3_PYTHON('pysmbd',
                   source='smbd/pysmbd.c',
                   deps='smbd_base pyrpc_util pytalloc-util',
                   realname='samba/samba3/smbd.so'