diff --git a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
index 05f53a52f..502fbc563 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/GenericUnixToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ extension GenericUnixToolchain {
         commandLine.appendPath(swiftrtPath)
       }
 
+      // Embedded Wasm binaries don't have compatible compiler-rt or C stdlib available, turn it off by default.
+      if isEmbeddedEnabled && (targetTriple.arch == .wasm32 || targetTriple.arch == .wasm64) {
+        commandLine.appendFlag("-nostdlib")
+      }
+
       // If we are linking statically, we need to add all
       // dependencies to a library search group to resolve
       // potential circular dependencies
diff --git a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
index 28c5b2f17..4cd75349d 100644
--- a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
@@ -6564,6 +6564,7 @@ final class SwiftDriverTests: XCTestCase {
       XCTAssertFalse(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-force_load")))
       XCTAssertFalse(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-rpath")))
       XCTAssertFalse(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-lswiftCore")))
+      XCTAssertTrue(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-nostdlib")))
     }
 
     // Embedded Wasm link job
@@ -6576,6 +6577,7 @@ final class SwiftDriverTests: XCTestCase {
       XCTAssertFalse(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-force_load")))
       XCTAssertFalse(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-rpath")))
       XCTAssertFalse(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-lswiftCore")))
+      XCTAssertTrue(linkJob.commandLine.contains(.flag("-nostdlib")))
       XCTAssertFalse(linkJob.commandLine.joinedUnresolvedArguments.contains("swiftrt.o"))
     }