diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index fe03597ef5..33cd672b4f 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ single_version_override(
         "//patches:llvm_rusty_v8_custom_libcxx.patch",
         "//patches:llvm_windows_arm64_powl.patch",
         "//patches:llvm_windows_symlink_extract.patch",
+        "//patches:llvm_windows_msvcrt_ucrt_compat.patch",
     ],
 )
 # Abseil picks a MinGW pthread TLS path that does not match our hermetic
diff --git a/patches/BUILD.bazel b/patches/BUILD.bazel
index f24f059197..4aaff9b6e9 100644
--- a/patches/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/patches/BUILD.bazel
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ exports_files([
     "bzip2_windows_stack_args.patch",
     "llvm_rusty_v8_custom_libcxx.patch",
     "llvm_windows_arm64_powl.patch",
+    "llvm_windows_msvcrt_ucrt_compat.patch",
     "llvm_windows_symlink_extract.patch",
     "rules_rust_windows_bootstrap_process_wrapper_linker.patch",
     "rules_rust_windows_build_script_runner_paths.patch",
diff --git a/patches/llvm_windows_msvcrt_ucrt_compat.patch b/patches/llvm_windows_msvcrt_ucrt_compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..24a49b13e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/llvm_windows_msvcrt_ucrt_compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# What: retain the UCRT compatibility archive when targeting Windows MSVCRT.
+# Why: rules_rs correctly models windows-gnullvm as MSVCRT, while V8 and libc++
+# still reference a small set of UCRT compatibility symbols.
+
+diff --git a/runtimes/mingw/BUILD.bazel b/runtimes/mingw/BUILD.bazel
+index 12f3507..a93d4e7 100644
+--- a/runtimes/mingw/BUILD.bazel
++++ b/runtimes/mingw/BUILD.bazel
+@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ copy_to_directory(
+         "//constraints/windows/crt:msvcrt": [
+             ":msvcrt_common",
+             ":msvcrt_extra",
++            ":ucrt",
+         ],
+         "//constraints/windows/crt:ucrt": [
+             ":ucrt",
+diff --git a/toolchain/args/windows/BUILD.bazel b/toolchain/args/windows/BUILD.bazel
+index f8f6d49..edcedf0 100644
+--- a/toolchain/args/windows/BUILD.bazel
++++ b/toolchain/args/windows/BUILD.bazel
+@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ cc_args(
+             "-lmsvcrt_common",
+             "-lmsvcrt_extra",
+             "-lmsvcrt",
++            # V8 and libc++ still reference UCRT compatibility symbols.
++            "-lucrt",
+         ],
+         "//constraints/windows/crt:ucrt": [
+             "-lucrt",