diff --git a/src/libstd/lib.rs b/src/libstd/lib.rs
index 21172918177..73e45619774 100644
--- a/src/libstd/lib.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/lib.rs
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@
 #![cfg_attr(windows, feature(str_utf16))]
 #![cfg_attr(test, feature(float_from_str_radix, range_inclusive, float_extras))]
 #![cfg_attr(test, feature(test, rustc_private, float_consts))]
+#![cfg_attr(target_env = "msvc", feature(link_args))]
 
 // Don't link to std. We are std.
 #![no_std]
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/windows/thread_local.rs b/src/libstd/sys/windows/thread_local.rs
index 5002de55988..a2dbb0f8342 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/windows/thread_local.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/windows/thread_local.rs
@@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ unsafe fn unregister_dtor(key: Key) -> bool {
 //
 // # The article mentions crazy stuff about "/INCLUDE"?
 //
-// It sure does! This seems to work for now, so maybe we'll just run into
-// that if we start linking with msvc?
+// It sure does! We include it below for MSVC targets, but it look like for GNU
+// targets we don't require it.
 
 #[link_section = ".CRT$XLB"]
 #[linkage = "external"]
@@ -231,6 +231,10 @@ pub static p_thread_callback: unsafe extern "system" fn(LPVOID, DWORD,
                                                         LPVOID) =
         on_tls_callback;
 
+#[cfg(target_env = "msvc")]
+#[link_args = "/INCLUDE:_tls_used"]
+extern {}
+
 #[allow(warnings)]
 unsafe extern "system" fn on_tls_callback(h: LPVOID,
                                           dwReason: DWORD,