diff --git a/mlir/examples/toy/Ch5/toyc.cpp b/mlir/examples/toy/Ch5/toyc.cpp
index b140b3605c97..6c50191981ee 100644
--- a/mlir/examples/toy/Ch5/toyc.cpp
+++ b/mlir/examples/toy/Ch5/toyc.cpp
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ int dumpLLVMIR() {
   // Initialize LLVM targets.
   llvm::InitializeNativeTarget();
   llvm::InitializeNativeTargetAsmPrinter();
+  mlir::ExecutionEngine::setupTargetTriple(llvmModule.get());
   auto optPipeline = mlir::makeOptimizingTransformer(
       /* optLevel=*/EnableOpt ? 3 : 0, /* sizeLevel=*/0);
   if (auto err = optPipeline(llvmModule.get())) {
diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h b/mlir/include/mlir/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h
index d8fde8526e46..102f22ea0ac7 100644
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ public:
   /// the templated `invoke`.
   llvm::Error invoke(StringRef name, MutableArrayRef<void *> args);
 
+  /// Set the target triple on the module. This is implicitly done when creating
+  /// the engine.
+  static bool setupTargetTriple(llvm::Module *llvmModule);
+
 private:
   // Ordering of llvmContext and jit is important for destruction purposes: the
   // jit must be destroyed before the context.
diff --git a/mlir/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp b/mlir/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
index e9f99848e374..0b7f3b69d417 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.cpp
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static void getDefaultPasses(
 }
 
 // Setup LLVM target triple from the current machine.
-static bool setupTargetTriple(llvm::Module *llvmModule) {
+bool ExecutionEngine::setupTargetTriple(llvm::Module *llvmModule) {
   // Setup the machine properties from the current architecture.
   auto targetTriple = llvm::sys::getDefaultTargetTriple();
   std::string errorMessage;