diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 1ff85b538..c3ef2183f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ ENDIF()
 # ---[ Build flags
 IF(NOT CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME)
   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME not defined")
-ELSEIF(NOT CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "^(Android|Darwin|iOS|Linux|Windows|CYGWIN|MSYS|QURT)$")
+ELSEIF(NOT CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "^(Android|Darwin|iOS|Linux|Windows|CYGWIN|MSYS|QURT|Emscripten|iOS)$")
   MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "Unrecognized CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME value \"${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}\"")
 ENDIF()
 IF(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "Windows")
@@ -763,7 +763,12 @@ IF(XNNPACK_BUILD_LIBRARY)
   TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(operator-run PRIVATE xnnpack-base logging)
   TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(operator-utils PRIVATE xnnpack-base logging)
   TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(subgraph PRIVATE xnnpack-base allocator logging memory mutex operators operator-run)
-  TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(XNNPACK PRIVATE allocator cache hardware-config indirection logging memory microkernel-utils microparams-init mutex normalization operators operator-run operator-utils packing microkernels-prod subgraph)
+  IF(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "Emscripten")
+     # omit microkernels-prod as the list is manually created by ORT in cmake/external/xnnpack.cmake
+     TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(XNNPACK PRIVATE allocator cache hardware-config indirection logging memory microkernel-utils microparams-init mutex normalization operators operator-run operator-utils packing subgraph)
+  ELSE()
+     TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(XNNPACK PRIVATE allocator cache hardware-config indirection logging memory microkernel-utils microparams-init mutex normalization operators operator-run operator-utils packing microkernels-prod subgraph)
+  ENDIF()  
   TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(XNNPACK PUBLIC xnnpack-base)
   SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(XNNPACK PROPERTIES C_EXTENSIONS YES)
 ENDIF()
@@ -772,7 +777,8 @@ IF(NOT MSVC)
 ENDIF()
 IF(XNNPACK_TARGET_PROCESSOR STREQUAL "arm")
   SET_PROPERTY(SOURCE ${ALL_MICROKERNEL_SRCS} APPEND_STRING PROPERTY COMPILE_FLAGS " -marm ")
-  SET_PROPERTY(SOURCE ${ALL_ARMSIMD32_MICROKERNEL_SRCS} APPEND_STRING PROPERTY COMPILE_FLAGS " -march=armv6 -mfpu=vfp -munaligned-access ")
+  # set this to armv7-a to workaround build issue. we don't target armv6 so it shouldn't matter
+  SET_PROPERTY(SOURCE ${ALL_ARMSIMD32_MICROKERNEL_SRCS} APPEND_STRING PROPERTY COMPILE_FLAGS " -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfp -munaligned-access ") 
   SET_PROPERTY(SOURCE ${ALL_NEON_MICROKERNEL_SRCS} APPEND_STRING PROPERTY COMPILE_FLAGS " -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon ")
   SET_PROPERTY(SOURCE ${ALL_NEONFP16_MICROKERNEL_SRCS} APPEND_STRING PROPERTY COMPILE_FLAGS " -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon-fp16 ")
   # GCC requires -mfp16-format=ieee to define __fp16 type, but Clang doesn't support this option at all.