From af7211f41adcc4227f62164be370743722997c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:55:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-38492: Remove pythonw.exe dependency on the Microsoft C++
 runtime

---
 .../Windows/2019-10-16-09-49-09.bpo-38492.Te1LxC.rst     | 1 +
 PCbuild/pythonw_uwp.vcxproj                              | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-16-09-49-09.bpo-38492.Te1LxC.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-16-09-49-09.bpo-38492.Te1LxC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-16-09-49-09.bpo-38492.Te1LxC.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..41fe695413f977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-10-16-09-49-09.bpo-38492.Te1LxC.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove ``pythonw.exe`` dependency on the Microsoft C++ runtime.
diff --git a/PCbuild/pythonw_uwp.vcxproj b/PCbuild/pythonw_uwp.vcxproj
index 79e105877fbeb2..e2c01710498eec 100644
--- a/PCbuild/pythonw_uwp.vcxproj
+++ b/PCbuild/pythonw_uwp.vcxproj
@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@
       <SubSystem>Windows</SubSystem>
     </Link>
   </ItemDefinitionGroup>
+  <ItemDefinitionGroup Condition="$(Configuration) != 'Debug'">
+    <ClCompile>
+      <RuntimeLibrary>Multithreaded</RuntimeLibrary>
+    </ClCompile>
+    <Link>
+      <AdditionalDependencies>ucrt.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)</AdditionalDependencies>
+      <IgnoreSpecificDefaultLibraries>libucrt;%(IgnoreSpecificDefaultLibraries)</IgnoreSpecificDefaultLibraries>
+    </Link>
+  </ItemDefinitionGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <None Include="..\PC\pyconw.ico" />
   </ItemGroup>