diff --git a/Compiler/src/Compiler.jl b/Compiler/src/Compiler.jl
index d454a4853a228c..92ed42b2881e54 100644
--- a/Compiler/src/Compiler.jl
+++ b/Compiler/src/Compiler.jl
@@ -1,15 +1,26 @@
 # This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: https://julialang.org/license
 
+if !isdefined(Base, :__Compiler_as_stdlib_available__)
+
+@eval baremodule Compiler
+    function __init__()
+        println("""
+        The `Compiler` standard library is not available for this version of Julia.
+        Use Julia version `v"1.12.0-DEV.1581"` or later.
+        """)
+    end
+end
+
 # When generating an incremental precompile file, we first check whether we
 # already have a copy of this *exact* code in the system image. If so, we
 # simply generates a pkgimage that has the dependency edges we recorded in
 # the system image and simply returns that copy of the compiler. If not,
 # we proceed to load/precompile this as an ordinary package.
-if isdefined(Base, :generating_output) && Base.generating_output(true) &&
+elseif (isdefined(Base, :generating_output) && Base.generating_output(true) &&
         Base.samefile(joinpath(Sys.BINDIR, Base.DATAROOTDIR, Base._compiler_require_dependencies[1][2]), @eval @__FILE__) &&
         !Base.any_includes_stale(
             map(Base.compiler_chi, Base._compiler_require_dependencies),
-            "sysimg", nothing)
+            "sysimg", nothing))
 
     Base.prepare_compiler_stub_image!()
     append!(Base._require_dependencies, map(Base.expand_compiler_path, Base._compiler_require_dependencies))
diff --git a/base/Base_compiler.jl b/base/Base_compiler.jl
index b2633c25eef3f3..741f9deb7ac6d6 100644
--- a/base/Base_compiler.jl
+++ b/base/Base_compiler.jl
@@ -288,6 +288,14 @@ process_sysimg_args!()
 
 function isready end
 
+"""
+    Base.__Compiler_as_stdlib_available__
+
+This is a token for switching the definition of `Compiler` to make it installable even on
+Julia versions where Compiler.jl is not available as a standard library.
+"""
+const __Compiler_as_stdlib_available__ = true
+
 include(strcat(BUILDROOT, "../usr/share/julia/Compiler/src/Compiler.jl"))
 
 const _return_type = Compiler.return_type