From ff294fdddd19f076c11e97e8c932abc0c7741a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jonathan J. Helmus" <jjhelmus@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 14:53:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] build Tcl/Tk with noembed on Windows

---
 PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj | 4 ++--
 PCbuild/tk.vcxproj  | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj b/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj
index 2233559dfc8f5a1..a3e0433c0dad8d2 100644
--- a/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj
+++ b/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
   <Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.props" />
   
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TclOpts>msvcrt</TclOpts>
-    <TclOpts Condition="$(Configuration) == 'Debug'">symbols,msvcrt</TclOpts>
+    <TclOpts>noembed,msvcrt</TclOpts>
+    <TclOpts Condition="$(Configuration) == 'Debug'">symbols,noembed,msvcrt</TclOpts>
     <TclDirs>BUILDDIRTOP="$(BuildDirTop)" INSTALLDIR="$(OutDir.TrimEnd(`\`))" INSTALL_DIR="$(OutDir.TrimEnd(`\`))"</TclDirs>
     <DebugFlags Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">DEBUGFLAGS="-wd4456 -wd4457 -wd4458 -wd4459 -wd4996"</DebugFlags>
     <WarningsFlags>WARNINGS="-W3 -wd4311 -wd4312"</WarningsFlags>
diff --git a/PCbuild/tk.vcxproj b/PCbuild/tk.vcxproj
index 204244db0d3e4bb..87075fba5c7c723 100644
--- a/PCbuild/tk.vcxproj
+++ b/PCbuild/tk.vcxproj
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
   <Import Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Microsoft.Cpp.props" />
   
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TkOpts>msvcrt</TkOpts>
-    <TkOpts Condition="$(Configuration) == 'Debug'">symbols,msvcrt</TkOpts>
+    <TkOpts>noembed,msvcrt</TkOpts>
+    <TkOpts Condition="$(Configuration) == 'Debug'">symbols,noembed,msvcrt</TkOpts>
     <TkDirs>BUILDDIRTOP="$(BuildDirTop)" TCLDIR="$(tclDir.TrimEnd(`\`))" INSTALLDIR="$(OutDir.TrimEnd(`\`))"</TkDirs>
     <DebugFlags Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">DEBUGFLAGS="-wd4456 -wd4457 -wd4458 -wd4459 -wd4996"</DebugFlags>
     <WarningsFlags>WARNINGS="-W3 -wd4244 -wd4267 -wd4311 -wd4312 -wd4334"</WarningsFlags>

From 18545213c077cba21b6bd25ab5e67cb43ddd62cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jonathan J. Helmus" <jjhelmus@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 14:57:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] build libtclzip

The zip file with the Tcl scripts need to be built even if it is not
embedded. This file is copied into the install directory by the
install-libraries target
---
 PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj b/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj
index a3e0433c0dad8d2..013c96149a3977d 100644
--- a/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj
+++ b/PCbuild/tcl.vcxproj
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     <NMakeBuildCommandLine>setlocal
 set VCINSTALLDIR=$(VCInstallDir)
 cd /D "$(tclDir)win"
-nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=$(TclMachine) OPTS=$(TclOpts) $(TclDirs) $(DebugFlags) $(WarningsFlags) $(TclshNativeFlag) core shell dlls
+nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=$(TclMachine) OPTS=$(TclOpts) $(TclDirs) $(DebugFlags) $(WarningsFlags) $(TclshNativeFlag) core shell dlls libtclzip
 nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=$(TclMachine) OPTS=$(TclOpts) $(TclDirs) $(DebugFlags) $(WarningsFlags) $(TclshNativeFlag) install-binaries install-libraries
 copy /Y ..\license.terms "$(OutDir)\tcllicense.terms"
 </NMakeBuildCommandLine>

From 32018e4e376891cf432c1ad466f264f79f456772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "blurb-it[bot]" <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 18:53:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=93=9C=F0=9F=A4=96=20Added=20by=20blu?=
 =?UTF-8?q?rb=5Fit.?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

---
 .../next/Windows/2026-06-04-18-53-18.gh-issue-150836.Wci7bZ.rst  | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2026-06-04-18-53-18.gh-issue-150836.Wci7bZ.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2026-06-04-18-53-18.gh-issue-150836.Wci7bZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2026-06-04-18-53-18.gh-issue-150836.Wci7bZ.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..d5c76cf976116c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2026-06-04-18-53-18.gh-issue-150836.Wci7bZ.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+On Windows Tcl/Tk 9.0.3 is built without embedded Tcl/Tk library scripts.