diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
index f8e28c452c339..beb213473b6e8 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ let
     && !(stdenv.targetPlatform.useAndroidPrebuilt or false)
     && !(stdenv.targetPlatform.isiOS or false)
     && gccForLibs != null;
+  gccForLibs_solib = getLib gccForLibs
+    + optionalString (targetPlatform != hostPlatform) "/${targetPlatform.config}";
 
   # older compilers (for example bootstrap's GCC 5) fail with -march=too-modern-cpu
   isGccArchSupported = arch:
@@ -311,7 +313,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
       echo "-B${gccForLibs}/lib/gcc/${targetPlatform.config}/${gccForLibs.version}" >> $out/nix-support/cc-cflags
       echo "-L${gccForLibs}/lib/gcc/${targetPlatform.config}/${gccForLibs.version}" >> $out/nix-support/cc-ldflags
-      echo "-L${gccForLibs.lib}/${targetPlatform.config}/lib" >> $out/nix-support/cc-ldflags
+      echo "-L${gccForLibs_solib}/lib" >> $out/nix-support/cc-ldflags
     ''
 
     # TODO We would like to connect this to `useGccForLibs`, but we cannot yet