diff --git a/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD b/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD
index 60271a492559f..7e8bf88ed2d84 100644
--- a/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD
+++ b/bazel/foreign_cc/BUILD
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ configure_make(
     env = {
         "CXXFLAGS": "-fPIC -DU_CHARSET_IS_UTF8=1 -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=0 -DUCONFIG_ONLY_HTML_CONVERSION=1 -DUCONFIG_NO_LEGACY_CONVERSION=1 -DUCONFIG_NO_BREAK_ITERATION=1 -DUCONFIG_NO_COLLATION=1 -DUCONFIG_NO_FORMATTING=1 -DUCONFIG_NO_TRANSLITERATION=1 -DUCONFIG_NO_REGULAR_EXPRESSIONS=1",
         "CFLAGS": "-fPIC",
+        "LIBS": "-l:libstdc++.a",
         "ICU_DATA_FILTER_FILE": "$(execpath //bazel/foreign_cc:icu_data_filter.json)",
     },
     lib_source = "@com_github_unicode_org_icu//:all",