diff --git a/libwild/src/output_section_id.rs b/libwild/src/output_section_id.rs
index 9d73d8bba..84b71851e 100644
--- a/libwild/src/output_section_id.rs
+++ b/libwild/src/output_section_id.rs
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ pub(crate) struct BuiltInSectionDetails {
     pub(crate) link: &'static [OutputSectionId],
     pub(crate) start_symbol_name: Option<&'static str>,
     pub(crate) end_symbol_name: Option<&'static str>,
+    pub(crate) synthetic_symbol_names: Option<&'static [&'static str]>,
     pub(crate) min_alignment: Alignment,
     info_fn: Option<fn(&InfoInputs) -> u32>,
     pub(crate) keep_if_empty: bool,
@@ -390,6 +391,7 @@ const DEFAULT_DEFS: BuiltInSectionDetails = BuiltInSectionDetails {
     link: &[],
     start_symbol_name: None,
     end_symbol_name: None,
+    synthetic_symbol_names: None,
     min_alignment: alignment::MIN,
     info_fn: None,
     keep_if_empty: false,
@@ -404,7 +406,7 @@ const SECTION_DEFINITIONS: [BuiltInSectionDetails; NUM_BUILT_IN_SECTIONS] = [
     BuiltInSectionDetails {
         kind: SectionKind::Primary(SectionName(b"")),
         section_flags: shf::ALLOC,
-        start_symbol_name: Some("__ehdr_start"),
+        synthetic_symbol_names: Some(&["__ehdr_start", "__executable_start"]),
         keep_if_empty: true,
         ..DEFAULT_DEFS
     },
diff --git a/libwild/src/parsing.rs b/libwild/src/parsing.rs
index 8e0cc1f57..9088f2d93 100644
--- a/libwild/src/parsing.rs
+++ b/libwild/src/parsing.rs
@@ -203,6 +203,15 @@ impl<'data> Prelude<'data> {
                     name.as_bytes(),
                 ));
             }
+
+            if let Some(names) = def.synthetic_symbol_names {
+                for name in names {
+                    symbol_definitions.push(InternalSymDefInfo::notype(
+                        SymbolPlacement::SectionStart(section_id),
+                        name.as_bytes(),
+                    ));
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         // We define _TLS_MODULE_BASE_ either at the start or end of the TLS segment, depending on