diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2024-02-14-15-58-13.gh-issue-113516.TyIHWx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2024-02-14-15-58-13.gh-issue-113516.TyIHWx.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0dd1128e02d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2024-02-14-15-58-13.gh-issue-113516.TyIHWx.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Don't set ``LDSHARED`` when building for WASI.
diff --git a/Tools/wasm/wasi-env b/Tools/wasm/wasi-env
index 48908b02e60..e6c6fb2d8e4 100755
--- a/Tools/wasm/wasi-env
+++ b/Tools/wasm/wasi-env
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ if command -v ccache >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     CXX="ccache ${CXX}"
 fi
 
-LDSHARED="${WASI_SDK_PATH}/bin/wasm-ld"
 AR="${WASI_SDK_PATH}/bin/llvm-ar"
 RANLIB="${WASI_SDK_PATH}/bin/ranlib"
 
diff --git a/Tools/wasm/wasi.py b/Tools/wasm/wasi.py
index 46ecae74a9e..1e75db5c7b8 100644
--- a/Tools/wasm/wasi.py
+++ b/Tools/wasm/wasi.py
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def wasi_sdk_env(context):
     wasi_sdk_path = context.wasi_sdk_path
     sysroot = wasi_sdk_path / "share" / "wasi-sysroot"
     env = {"CC": "clang", "CPP": "clang-cpp", "CXX": "clang++",
-           "LDSHARED": "wasm-ld", "AR": "llvm-ar", "RANLIB": "ranlib"}
+           "AR": "llvm-ar", "RANLIB": "ranlib"}
 
     for env_var, binary_name in list(env.items()):
         env[env_var] = os.fsdecode(wasi_sdk_path / "bin" / binary_name)