diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/cpp/cc_configure.WORKSPACE b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/cpp/cc_configure.WORKSPACE
index 544f75aea6fb32..a1cf987268fbb0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/cpp/cc_configure.WORKSPACE
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/cpp/cc_configure.WORKSPACE
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
 load("@bazel_tools//tools/cpp:cc_configure.bzl", "cc_configure")
 
+# rules_cc is used in @bazel_tools//tools/cpp, so must be loaded here.
+maybe(
+    http_archive,
+    "rules_cc",
+    sha256 = "d0c573b94a6ef20ef6ff20154a23d0efcb409fb0e1ff0979cec318dfe42f0cdd",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_cc-b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d",
+    urls = [
+        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d.zip",
+        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d.zip",
+    ],
+)
+
 cc_configure()
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/java/jdk.WORKSPACE b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/java/jdk.WORKSPACE
index dcf3fa56bf9844..e3776cc054995c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/java/jdk.WORKSPACE
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/java/jdk.WORKSPACE
@@ -247,11 +247,11 @@ maybe(
 maybe(
     http_archive,
     "rules_cc",
-    sha256 = "1d4dbbd1e1e9b57d40bb0ade51c9e882da7658d5bfbf22bbd15b68e7879d761f",
-    strip_prefix = "rules_cc-8bd6cd75d03c01bb82561a96d9c1f9f7157b13d0",
+    sha256 = "d0c573b94a6ef20ef6ff20154a23d0efcb409fb0e1ff0979cec318dfe42f0cdd",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_cc-b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d",
     urls = [
-        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/8bd6cd75d03c01bb82561a96d9c1f9f7157b13d0.zip",
-        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/8bd6cd75d03c01bb82561a96d9c1f9f7157b13d0.zip",
+        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d.zip",
+        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/b1c40e1de81913a3c40e5948f78719c28152486d.zip",
     ],
 )