diff --git a/library/std/src/sys/thread_local/mod.rs b/library/std/src/sys/thread_local/mod.rs
index a009ad5c33f40..d258622466425 100644
--- a/library/std/src/sys/thread_local/mod.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/sys/thread_local/mod.rs
@@ -83,8 +83,18 @@ mod guard {
             pub(super) use windows::enable;
         } else if #[cfg(any(
             all(target_family = "wasm", target_feature = "atomics"),
-            target_os = "hermit",
         ))] {
+            pub(super) fn enable() {
+                // FIXME: Right now there is no concept of "thread exit", but
+                // this is likely going to show up at some point in the form of
+                // an exported symbol that the wasm runtime is going to be
+                // expected to call. For now we just leak everything, but if
+                // such a function starts to exist it will probably need to
+                // iterate the destructor list with this function:
+                #[allow(unused)]
+                use super::destructors::run;
+            }
+        } else if #[cfg(target_os = "hermit")] {
             pub(super) fn enable() {}
         } else if #[cfg(target_os = "solid_asp3")] {
             mod solid;