diff --git a/libdl/Android.bp b/libdl/Android.bp
index 9db3a94..e9b79d7 100644
--- a/libdl/Android.bp
+++ b/libdl/Android.bp
@@ -57,6 +57,55 @@
     allow_undefined_symbols: true,
     system_shared_libs: [],
 
+    // This is placeholder library the actual implementation is (currently)
+    // provided by the linker.
+    shared_libs: [ "ld-android" ],
+
+    sanitize: {
+        never: true,
+    },
+}
+
+cc_library {
+    // NOTE: --exclude-libs=libgcc.a makes sure that any symbols libdl.so pulls from
+    // libgcc.a are made static to ld-android.so.  This in turn ensures that libraries that
+    // a) pull symbols from libgcc.a and b) depend on ld-android.so will not rely on ld-android.so
+    // to provide those symbols, but will instead pull them from libgcc.a.  Specifically,
+    // we use this property to make sure libc.so has its own copy of the code from
+    // libgcc.a it uses.
+    //
+    // DO NOT REMOVE --exclude-libs!
+
+    ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc.a"],
+
+    // for x86, exclude libgcc_eh.a for the same reasons as above
+    arch: {
+        x86: {
+            ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a"],
+        },
+        x86_64: {
+            ldflags: ["-Wl,--exclude-libs=libgcc_eh.a"],
+        },
+    },
+    srcs: ["ld_android.c"],
+    cflags: [
+        "-Wall",
+        "-Wextra",
+        "-Wunused",
+        "-Werror",
+    ],
+    stl: "none",
+
+    name: "ld-android",
+
+    // NOTE: libdl needs __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0 from libgcc.a but libgcc.a needs a
+    // few symbols from libc. Using --no-undefined here results in having to link
+    // against libc creating a circular dependency which is removed and we end up
+    // with missing symbols. Since this library is just a bunch of stubs, we set
+    // LOCAL_ALLOW_UNDEFINED_SYMBOLS to remove --no-undefined from the linker flags.
+    allow_undefined_symbols: true,
+    system_shared_libs: [],
+
     sanitize: {
         never: true,
     },