diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/graalvm/community-edition/buildGraalvm.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/graalvm/community-edition/buildGraalvm.nix
index 6b267ce0ca3d..db97c1e3f54c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/graalvm/community-edition/buildGraalvm.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/graalvm/community-edition/buildGraalvm.nix
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ let
         }
 
         ${
-          # --static is only available in Linux
-          lib.optionalString (stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && useMusl) ''
+          # --static is only available in x86_64 Linux
+          lib.optionalString (stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64 && useMusl) ''
             echo "Ahead-Of-Time compilation with --static and --libc=musl"
             $out/bin/native-image $extraNativeImageArgs -march=compatibility --libc=musl --static HelloWorld
             ./helloworld | fgrep 'Hello World'