diff --git a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/WebAssemblyToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/WebAssemblyToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
index 0e4e31e02..d9a45cc97 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/WebAssemblyToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftDriver/Jobs/WebAssemblyToolchain+LinkerSupport.swift
@@ -114,7 +114,11 @@ extension WebAssemblyToolchain {
       }
       commandLine.append(contentsOf: inputFiles)
 
-      if let path = targetInfo.sdkPath?.path {
+      // Prefer -sysroot as the native sysroot path if provided.
+      if let sysroot = parsedOptions.getLastArgument(.sysroot)?.asSingle {
+        commandLine.appendFlag("--sysroot")
+        try commandLine.appendPath(VirtualPath(path: sysroot))
+      } else if let path = targetInfo.sdkPath?.path {
         commandLine.appendFlag("--sysroot")
         commandLine.appendPath(VirtualPath.lookup(path))
       }
diff --git a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
index 457ecc560..d4b555ae0 100644
--- a/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SwiftDriverTests/SwiftDriverTests.swift
@@ -2790,6 +2790,23 @@ final class SwiftDriverTests: XCTestCase {
       }
     }
 
+    do {
+      // -sysroot is preferred over -sdk as the sysroot passed to the clang linker
+      try withTemporaryDirectory { path in
+        try localFileSystem.writeFileContents(path.appending(components: "wasi", "static-executable-args.lnk")) {
+          $0.send("garbage")
+        }
+        var driver = try Driver(args: commonArgs + ["-emit-executable", "-Ounchecked",
+                                                    "-target", "wasm32-unknown-wasi",
+                                                    "-resource-dir", path.pathString,
+                                                    "-sysroot", "/sysroot/path",
+                                                    "-sdk", "/sdk/path"], env: env)
+        let plannedJobs = try driver.planBuild()
+        let cmd = plannedJobs.last!.commandLine
+        XCTAssertTrue(cmd.contains(subsequence: ["--sysroot", .path(.absolute(try .init(validating: "/sysroot/path")))]))
+      }
+    }
+
     do {
       // Linker flags with and without space
       var driver = try Driver(args: commonArgs + ["-lsomelib","-l","otherlib"], env: env)