diff --git a/cmake/common/px4_base.cmake b/cmake/common/px4_base.cmake
index 66be1acbe5..492e02ae4b 100644
--- a/cmake/common/px4_base.cmake
+++ b/cmake/common/px4_base.cmake
@@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ function(px4_add_common_flags)
 		-Werror=reorder
 		-Werror=uninitialized
 		-Werror=init-self
+		-Wno-unused-const-variable
 		#-Wcast-qual  - generates spurious noreturn attribute warnings,
 		#               try again later
 		#-Wconversion - would be nice, but too many "risky-but-safe"
@@ -508,7 +509,6 @@ function(px4_add_common_flags)
 
 	if (NOT ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID} STREQUAL "Clang")
 		list(APPEND warnings
-			-Wno-unused-const-variable
 			-Werror=unused-but-set-variable
 			-Wformat=1
 			#-Wlogical-op # very verbose due to eigen
@@ -618,10 +618,16 @@ function(px4_add_common_flags)
 		-DCONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_${board_config}
 		)
 
-	set(added_exe_link_flags
-		-Wl,--warn-common
-		-Wl,--gc-sections
-		)
+	if (NOT ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID} STREQUAL "Clang")
+		set(added_exe_link_flags
+			-Wl,--warn-common
+			-Wl,--gc-sections
+			)
+	else()
+		set(added_exe_link_flags
+			-Wl,--warn-common
+			)
+	endif()
 
 	# output
 	foreach(var ${inout_vars})
diff --git a/cmake/toolchains/Toolchain-native.cmake b/cmake/toolchains/Toolchain-native.cmake
index e7792a5f87..0f9ad12f14 100644
--- a/cmake/toolchains/Toolchain-native.cmake
+++ b/cmake/toolchains/Toolchain-native.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # compiler tools
-foreach(tool objcopy nm ld)
+foreach(tool nm ld)
 	string(TOUPPER ${tool} TOOL)
 	find_program(${TOOL} ${tool})
 	if(NOT ${TOOL})
diff --git a/src/firmware/posix/CMakeLists.txt b/src/firmware/posix/CMakeLists.txt
index bc557ce6f7..1ac73ba682 100644
--- a/src/firmware/posix/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/firmware/posix/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,11 +13,25 @@ add_executable(mainapp
 	apps.h
 	)
 
-target_link_libraries(mainapp
-	-Wl,--start-group
-	${module_libraries}
-	pthread m rt
-	-Wl,--end-group
-	)
+if (NOT ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID} STREQUAL "Clang")
+	target_link_libraries(mainapp
+		-Wl,--start-group
+		${module_libraries}
+		pthread m rt
+		-Wl,--end-group
+		)
+else()
+	if (APPLE)
+		target_link_libraries(mainapp
+			${module_libraries}
+			pthread m
+			)
+	else()
+		target_link_libraries(mainapp
+			${module_libraries}
+			pthread m rt
+			)
+	endif()
+endif()
 
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