diff --git a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/DispatchGlobalExecutor.cpp b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/DispatchGlobalExecutor.cpp
index a93e8d8445619..d0d3889bc1c9c 100644
--- a/stdlib/public/Concurrency/DispatchGlobalExecutor.cpp
+++ b/stdlib/public/Concurrency/DispatchGlobalExecutor.cpp
@@ -103,9 +103,13 @@ static void initializeDispatchEnqueueFunc(dispatch_queue_t queue, void *obj,
   if (SWIFT_RUNTIME_WEAK_CHECK(dispatch_async_swift_job))
     func = SWIFT_RUNTIME_WEAK_USE(dispatch_async_swift_job);
 #elif defined(_WIN32)
+#if defined(dispatch_STATIC)
+  func = dispatch_async_swift_job;
+#else
   func = function_cast<dispatchEnqueueFuncType>(
       GetProcAddress(LoadLibraryW(L"dispatch.dll"),
       "dispatch_async_swift_job"));
+#endif
 #else
   func = function_cast<dispatchEnqueueFuncType>(
       dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "dispatch_async_swift_job"));
diff --git a/utils/build.ps1 b/utils/build.ps1
index bd548250cc314..7217cc579fa22 100644
--- a/utils/build.ps1
+++ b/utils/build.ps1
@@ -2356,13 +2356,17 @@ function Build-ExperimentalRuntime {
         CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_PREFER_CONFIG = "YES";
         CMAKE_Swift_COMPILER_TARGET = (Get-ModuleTriple $Platform);
         CMAKE_Swift_COMPILER_WORKS = "YES";
+        # TODO(compnerd) enforce dynamic linking of BlocksRuntime and dispatch.
+        CMAKE_Swift_FLAGS = $(if ($Static) { @("-Xcc", "-static-libclosure", "-Xcc", "-Ddispatch_STATIC") } else { @() });
         CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX_Swift = "lib";
         CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME = $Platform.OS.ToString();
         CMAKE_NINJA_FORCE_RESPONSE_FILE = "YES";
 
         # NOTE(compnerd) we can get away with this currently because we only
-        # use the C portion of the dispatch build, which is always built
-        # dynamically.
+        # use the C portion of the dispatch build, which is supposed to always
+        # be built dynamically. Currently, we do not do this due to limitations
+        # of the build system, but because we are building statically, we do
+        # not link against the runtime and can get away with it.
         dispatch_DIR = (Get-ProjectCMakeModules $Platform Dispatch);
         SwiftCore_ENABLE_CONCURRENCY = "YES";
       }
@@ -2758,7 +2762,8 @@ function Build-ExperimentalSDK([Hashtable] $Platform) {
         CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_PREFER_CONFIG = "YES";
         CMAKE_Swift_COMPILER_TARGET = (Get-ModuleTriple $Platform);
         CMAKE_Swift_COMPILER_WORKS = "YES";
-        CMAKE_Swift_FLAGS = @("-static-stdlib", "-Xfrontend", "-use-static-resource-dir");
+        # TODO(compnerd) enforce dynamic linking of BlocksRuntime and dispatch.
+        CMAKE_Swift_FLAGS = @("-static-stdlib", "-Xfrontend", "-use-static-resource-dir", "-Xcc", "-Ddispatch_STATIC");
         CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX_Swift = "lib";
         CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME = $Platform.OS.ToString();