diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
index adc8d9ec48602..e8a1ee96505c6 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/silver-searcher/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 {stdenv, fetchgit, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, pcre, zlib, lzma}:
 
-let release = "0.19.1"; in
+let release = "0.19.2"; in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "silver-searcher-${release}";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.git";
     rev = "refs/tags/${release}";
-    sha256 = "1km3ap74mls7vkp6si4f302zb1ifmldipjyfw2z9akqpvr3n44p9";
+    sha256 = "b6993e077f650eb0976cbc924640665fa9b2499a899ecba5a6cad5cf9addfdff";
   };
 
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lgcc_s";
+
   buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig pcre zlib lzma ];
 
   meta = {