diff --git a/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c b/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c
index 64ce87be75ff9a..609b2121996855 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c
+++ b/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c
@@ -689,6 +689,25 @@ debugger_agent_parse_options (char *options)
 			exit (1);
 		}
 	}
+
+	mini_get_debug_options ()->gen_sdb_seq_points = TRUE;
+	/*
+	 * This is needed because currently we don't handle liveness info.
+	 */
+	mini_get_debug_options ()->mdb_optimizations = TRUE;
+
+#ifndef MONO_ARCH_HAVE_CONTEXT_SET_INT_REG
+	/* This is needed because we can't set local variables in registers yet */
+	mono_disable_optimizations (MONO_OPT_LINEARS);
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * The stack walk done from thread_interrupt () needs to be signal safe, but it
+	 * isn't, since it can call into mono_aot_find_jit_info () which is not signal
+	 * safe (#3411). So load AOT info eagerly when the debugger is running as a
+	 * workaround.
+	 */
+	mini_get_debug_options ()->load_aot_jit_info_eagerly = TRUE;
 }
 
 void
@@ -808,25 +827,6 @@ debugger_agent_init (void)
 	objrefs_init ();
 	suspend_init ();
 
-	mini_get_debug_options ()->gen_sdb_seq_points = TRUE;
-	/*
-	 * This is needed because currently we don't handle liveness info.
-	 */
-	mini_get_debug_options ()->mdb_optimizations = TRUE;
-
-#ifndef MONO_ARCH_HAVE_CONTEXT_SET_INT_REG
-	/* This is needed because we can't set local variables in registers yet */
-	mono_disable_optimizations (MONO_OPT_LINEARS);
-#endif
-
-	/*
-	 * The stack walk done from thread_interrupt () needs to be signal safe, but it
-	 * isn't, since it can call into mono_aot_find_jit_info () which is not signal
-	 * safe (#3411). So load AOT info eagerly when the debugger is running as a
-	 * workaround.
-	 */
-	mini_get_debug_options ()->load_aot_jit_info_eagerly = TRUE;
-
 #ifdef HAVE_SETPGID
 	if (agent_config.setpgid)
 		setpgid (0, 0);
diff --git a/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-runtime.c b/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-runtime.c
index e87480ee3c43f2..790f6d46247cf4 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-runtime.c
+++ b/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-runtime.c
@@ -4479,13 +4479,15 @@ mini_init (const char *filename)
 #endif
 
 	mono_interp_stub_init ();
+
+	mono_components_init ();
+
+	mono_component_debugger ()->parse_options (mono_debugger_agent_get_sdb_options ());
+
 #ifndef DISABLE_INTERPRETER
 	if (mono_use_interpreter)
 		mono_ee_interp_init (mono_interp_opts_string);
 #endif
-	mono_components_init ();
-
-	mono_component_debugger ()->parse_options (mono_debugger_agent_get_sdb_options ());
 
 	mono_os_mutex_init_recursive (&jit_mutex);