diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
index f922c86d11437..a2f710a6c8251 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/cc-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ 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:
@@ -349,7 +351,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     ''
     + optionalString useGccForLibs ''
       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