diff --git a/src/mono/wasm/build/WasmApp.Common.targets b/src/mono/wasm/build/WasmApp.Common.targets
index 763371deb1cb6..df8a8a33cc710 100644
--- a/src/mono/wasm/build/WasmApp.Common.targets
+++ b/src/mono/wasm/build/WasmApp.Common.targets
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@
       DisableParallelAot="$(DisableParallelAot)"
       DedupAssembly="$(_WasmDedupAssembly)"
       CacheFilePath="$(_AOTCompilerCacheFile)"
-      LLVMDebug="dwarfdebug"
+      UseDwarfDebug="$(WasmNativeDebugSymbols)"
       LLVMPath="$(_WasmLLVMPathForAOT)"
       CollectTrimmingEligibleMethods="$(WasmStripILAfterAOT)"
       TrimmingEligibleMethodsOutputDirectory="$(_WasmIntermediateOutputPath)tokens"