diff --git a/cc/androidmk.go b/cc/androidmk.go
index 9290272..318cd7c 100644
--- a/cc/androidmk.go
+++ b/cc/androidmk.go
@@ -560,10 +560,6 @@
 func (c *snapshotBinaryDecorator) AndroidMkEntries(ctx AndroidMkContext, entries *android.AndroidMkEntries) {
 	entries.Class = "EXECUTABLES"
 	entries.SubName = c.baseProperties.Androidmk_suffix
-
-	entries.ExtraEntries = append(entries.ExtraEntries, func(ctx android.AndroidMkExtraEntriesContext, entries *android.AndroidMkEntries) {
-		entries.AddStrings("LOCAL_MODULE_SYMLINKS", c.Properties.Symlinks...)
-	})
 }
 
 func (c *snapshotObjectLinker) AndroidMkEntries(ctx AndroidMkContext, entries *android.AndroidMkEntries) {
diff --git a/cc/binary.go b/cc/binary.go
index 6c7d581..0fe4490 100644
--- a/cc/binary.go
+++ b/cc/binary.go
@@ -441,6 +441,16 @@
 
 	// Need to determine symlinks early since some targets (ie APEX) need this
 	// information but will not call 'install'
+	binary.setSymlinkList(ctx)
+
+	return ret
+}
+
+func (binary *binaryDecorator) unstrippedOutputFilePath() android.Path {
+	return binary.unstrippedOutputFile
+}
+
+func (binary *binaryDecorator) setSymlinkList(ctx ModuleContext) {
 	for _, symlink := range binary.Properties.Symlinks {
 		binary.symlinks = append(binary.symlinks,
 			symlink+String(binary.Properties.Suffix)+ctx.toolchain().ExecutableSuffix())
@@ -457,12 +467,6 @@
 			binary.preferredArchSymlink = symlinkName
 		}
 	}
-
-	return ret
-}
-
-func (binary *binaryDecorator) unstrippedOutputFilePath() android.Path {
-	return binary.unstrippedOutputFile
 }
 
 func (binary *binaryDecorator) symlinkList() []string {
diff --git a/cc/snapshot_prebuilt.go b/cc/snapshot_prebuilt.go
index 753d74c..9d40ad0 100644
--- a/cc/snapshot_prebuilt.go
+++ b/cc/snapshot_prebuilt.go
@@ -680,6 +680,9 @@
 		Input:       in,
 	})
 
+	// binary snapshots need symlinking
+	p.setSymlinkList(ctx)
+
 	return outputFile
 }
 
diff --git a/cc/vendor_snapshot_test.go b/cc/vendor_snapshot_test.go
index 645b2cc..2bb43ab 100644
--- a/cc/vendor_snapshot_test.go
+++ b/cc/vendor_snapshot_test.go
@@ -741,6 +741,7 @@
 				src: "bin",
 			},
 		},
+		symlinks: ["binfoo", "binbar"],
 	}
 
 	vendor_snapshot_binary {
@@ -920,7 +921,21 @@
 	ctx.ModuleForTests("libvendor_without_snapshot", sharedVariant).Output("libvendor_without_snapshot.so")
 
 	// bin is installed by bin.vendor_binary.31.arm64
-	ctx.ModuleForTests("bin.vendor_binary.31.arm64", binaryVariant).Output("bin")
+	bin64Module := ctx.ModuleForTests("bin.vendor_binary.31.arm64", binaryVariant)
+	bin64Module.Output("bin")
+
+	// also test symlinks
+	bin64MkEntries := android.AndroidMkEntriesForTest(t, ctx, bin64Module.Module())
+	bin64KatiSymlinks := bin64MkEntries[0].EntryMap["LOCAL_SOONG_INSTALL_SYMLINKS"]
+
+	// Either AndroidMk entries contain symlinks, or symlinks should be installed by Soong
+	for _, symlink := range []string{"binfoo", "binbar"} {
+		if inList(symlink, bin64KatiSymlinks) {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		bin64Module.Output(symlink)
+	}
 
 	// bin32 is installed by bin32.vendor_binary.31.arm64
 	ctx.ModuleForTests("bin32.vendor_binary.31.arm64", binary32Variant).Output("bin32")