diff --git a/tests/bootstrap_helper.js b/tests/bootstrap_helper.js
index 8809fe79c..f70d52101 100644
--- a/tests/bootstrap_helper.js
+++ b/tests/bootstrap_helper.js
@@ -21,20 +21,6 @@
     // Force debug module loader to finish loading all modules.
     for (const require of info.requires) {
       goog.require(require);
-
-      // This is a kludge to work around an issue where attempting to
-      // load Blockly.libraryBlocks (blocks/blocks.js) fails if the
-      // Blockly global variable is not defined.
-      //
-      // This is apparently because the debug module loader fails to
-      // load Blockly.libraryBlocks.lists (blocks/lists.js) and
-      // .procedures (blocks/procedures.js) first, despite they both
-      // being required from blocks.js, and that is apparently because
-      // they both depend on Blockly.Xml which the debug loader seems
-      // to think has not been loaded yet even though it has.
-      if (require === 'Blockly') {
-        window.Blockly = goog.module.get('Blockly');
-      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 8d3243af4..2d65a6486 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
     "core/**/*",  // N.B.: also pulls in closure/goog/goog.js if needed.
     "closure/**/*",  // Just for ouptut directory structure.
   ],
-  "exclude": [
-    "core/blockly.js"
-  ],
   "compilerOptions": {
     // Tells TypeScript to read JS files, as
     // normally they are ignored as source files