diff --git a/test/test_other.py b/test/test_other.py
index b25e7bca0c2b0..27358a9ac3efb 100644
--- a/test/test_other.py
+++ b/test/test_other.py
@@ -1538,6 +1538,11 @@ def test_whole_archive(self):
     self.run_process([EMCC, '-Wl,-whole-archive', '-Wl,--no-whole-archive', 'libtest.a', 'main.o'])
     self.assertContained('foo is: 0\n', self.run_js('a.out.js'))
 
+  def test_side_module_whole_archive(self):
+    # Make sure -sSIDE_MODULE=1 passes --whole-archive to the linker
+    err = self.run_process([EMCC, test_file('hello_world.c'), '-sSIDE_MODULE=1', '-v', '-o', 'side.wasm'], stderr=PIPE).stderr
+    self.assertContained('--whole-archive', err)
+
   def test_whole_archive_48156(self):
     # Regression test for http://llvm.org/PR48156
     # TODO: distill this test further and move to lld
diff --git a/tools/building.py b/tools/building.py
index bf635e96142f3..cdc0c81396f5d 100644
--- a/tools/building.py
+++ b/tools/building.py
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ def lld_flags(args, linker_inputs=None):
 
   # Emscripten currently expects linkable output (SIDE_MODULE/MAIN_MODULE) to
   # include all archive contents.
-  if settings.LINKABLE and (settings.FAKE_DYLIBS or not settings.SIDE_MODULE):
+  if settings.LINKABLE and (settings.FAKE_DYLIBS or settings.SIDE_MODULE != 2):
     args.insert(0, '--whole-archive')
     args.append('--no-whole-archive')