diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/Aot.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/Aot.cs
index 6c66bdd696d..261f9b506a5 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/Aot.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/Aot.cs
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ public class Aot : AsyncTask
 		[Required]
 		public string SdkBinDirectory { get; set; }
 
+		[Required]
+		public ITaskItem ManifestFile { get; set; }
+
 		[Required]
 		public ITaskItem[] ResolvedAssemblies { get; set; }
 
@@ -168,9 +171,22 @@ static bool ValidateAotConfiguration (TaskLoggingHelper log, AndroidTargetArch a
 			return true;
 		}
 
-		static int GetNdkApiLevel(string androidNdkPath, string androidApiLevel, AndroidTargetArch arch)
+		int GetNdkApiLevel(string androidNdkPath, string androidApiLevel, AndroidTargetArch arch)
 		{
-			int level = int.Parse(androidApiLevel);
+			var manifest    = AndroidAppManifest.Load (ManifestFile.ItemSpec);
+
+			int level;
+			if (manifest.MinSdkVersion.HasValue) {
+				level       = manifest.MinSdkVersion.Value;
+			}
+			else if (int.TryParse (androidApiLevel, out level)) {
+				// level already set
+			}
+			else {
+				// Probably not ideal!
+				level       = AndroidVersion.MaxApiLevel;
+			}
+
 			// Some Android API levels do not exist on the NDK level. Workaround this my mapping them to the
 			// most appropriate API level that does exist.
 			if (level == 6 || level == 7) level = 5;
diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs
index 79eeb7eac32..5fbc8f2f8c3 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 using System.Xml.Linq;
 using Microsoft.Build.Framework;
 using NUnit.Framework;
@@ -209,12 +210,29 @@ public void BuildAotApplication (string supportedAbis, bool enableLLVM, bool exp
 			proj.SetProperty (KnownProperties.TargetFrameworkVersion, "v5.1");
 			proj.SetProperty (KnownProperties.AndroidSupportedAbis, supportedAbis);
 			proj.SetProperty ("EnableLLVM", enableLLVM.ToString ());
+			if (enableLLVM) {
+				// Set //uses-sdk/@android:minSdkVersion so that LLVM uses the right libc.so
+				proj.AndroidManifest = $@"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
+<manifest xmlns:android=""http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"" android:versionCode=""1"" android:versionName=""1.0"" package=""{proj.PackageName}"">
+	<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=""10"" />
+	<application android:label=""{proj.ProjectName}"">
+	</application>
+</manifest>";
+			}
 			using (var b = CreateApkBuilder (path)) {
 				b.ThrowOnBuildFailure = false;
 				b.Verbosity = LoggerVerbosity.Diagnostic;
 				Assert.AreEqual (expectedResult, b.Build (proj), "Build should have {0}.", expectedResult ? "succeeded" : "failed");
 				if (!expectedResult)
 					return;
+				if (enableLLVM) {
+					// LLVM passes a direct path to libc.so, and we need to use the libc.so
+					// which corresponds to the *minimum* SDK version specified in AndroidManifest.xml
+					// Since we overrode minSdkVersion=10, that means we should use libc.so from android-9.
+					var rightLibc   = new Regex (@"^\s*\[AOT\].*cross-.*--llvm.*,ld-flags=.*android-9.arch-.*.usr.lib.libc\.so", RegexOptions.Multiline);
+					var m           = rightLibc.Match (b.LastBuildOutput);
+					Assert.IsTrue (m.Success, "AOT+LLVM should use libc.so from minSdkVersion!");
+				}
 				foreach (var abi in supportedAbis.Split (new char [] { ';' })) {
 					var libapp = Path.Combine (Root, b.ProjectDirectory, proj.IntermediateOutputPath,
 						"bundles", abi, "libmonodroid_bundle_app.so");
diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets
index b2eeafd4e0e..36eabbf3d07 100755
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets
@@ -2145,6 +2145,7 @@ because xbuild doesn't support framework reference assemblies.
 	AndroidNdkDirectory="$(_AndroidNdkDirectory)"
 	AndroidApiLevel="$(_AndroidApiLevel)"
 	SdkBinDirectory="$(MonoAndroidBinDirectory)"
+	ManifestFile="$(IntermediateOutputPath)android\AndroidManifest.xml"
 	SupportedAbis="$(_BuildTargetAbis)"
 	AndroidSequencePointsMode="$(_SequencePointsMode)"
 	AotAdditionalArguments="$(AndroidAotAdditionalArguments)"