diff --git a/cc/linker.go b/cc/linker.go
index ae5ee0a..385e04e 100644
--- a/cc/linker.go
+++ b/cc/linker.go
@@ -158,6 +158,13 @@
 			// the ramdisk variant of the C/C++ module.
 			Exclude_static_libs []string
 		}
+		Platform struct {
+			// list of shared libs that should be use to build the platform variant
+			// of a module that sets sdk_version.  This should rarely be necessary,
+			// in most cases the same libraries are available for the SDK and platform
+			// variants.
+			Shared_libs []string
+		}
 	}
 
 	// make android::build:GetBuildNumber() available containing the build ID.
@@ -255,6 +262,10 @@
 		deps.WholeStaticLibs = removeListFromList(deps.WholeStaticLibs, linker.Properties.Target.Recovery.Exclude_static_libs)
 	}
 
+	if !ctx.useSdk() {
+		deps.SharedLibs = append(deps.SharedLibs, linker.Properties.Target.Platform.Shared_libs...)
+	}
+
 	if ctx.toolchain().Bionic() {
 		// libclang_rt.builtins and libatomic have to be last on the command line
 		if !Bool(linker.Properties.No_libcrt) {