diff --git a/lib/Target/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/Target/CMakeLists.txt
index e87ccde22c1..417fd83c9a7 100644
--- a/lib/Target/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lib/Target/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ add_llvm_component_library(LLVMTarget
 
 # When building shared objects for each target there are some internal APIs
 # that are used across shared objects which we can't hide.
-if (NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND NOT APPLE)
+if (NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND NOT APPLE AND
+    NOT DEFINED CMAKE_CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET)
   # Set default visibility to hidden, so we don't export all the Target classes
   # in libLLVM.so.
   set(CMAKE_CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET hidden)