diff --git a/Source/cmNinjaNormalTargetGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmNinjaNormalTargetGenerator.cxx
index 99bc91a8c4..af18d21708 100644
--- a/Source/cmNinjaNormalTargetGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmNinjaNormalTargetGenerator.cxx
@@ -1578,7 +1578,8 @@ void cmNinjaNormalTargetGenerator::WriteLinkStatement(
   }
 
   // Add dependencies on swiftmodule files when using the swift linker
-  if (this->TargetLinkLanguage(config) == "Swift") {
+  if (!this->GetLocalGenerator()->IsSplitSwiftBuild() &&
+      this->TargetLinkLanguage(config) == "Swift") {
     if (cmComputeLinkInformation* cli =
           this->GeneratorTarget->GetLinkInformation(config)) {
       for (auto const& dependency : cli->GetItems()) {
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/C.c b/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/C.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/MultiLangChain.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/MultiLangChain.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8dccc9d8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/MultiLangChain.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+cmake_policy(SET CMP0157 NEW)
+cmake_policy(SET CMP0195 NEW)
+
+enable_language(Swift C)
+
+add_library(L L.swift)
+add_library(C C.c)
+target_link_libraries(C PRIVATE L)
+add_library(E E.swift)
+target_link_libraries(E PRIVATE C)
diff --git a/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/RunCMakeTest.cmake b/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/RunCMakeTest.cmake
index 63ad2323b7..bab92309a1 100644
--- a/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/RunCMakeTest.cmake
+++ b/Tests/RunCMake/Swift/RunCMakeTest.cmake
@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ block()
   endif()
 endblock()
 
+# Older Xcode versions didn't support Swift static libraries.
+if(NOT (RunCMake_GENERATOR STREQUAL "Xcode" AND XCODE_VERSION VERSION_LESS 9.0))
+  block()
+    set(RunCMake_TEST_BINARY_DIR ${RunCMake_BINARY_DIR}/MultiLangChain-build)
+    run_cmake(MultiLangChain)
+    set(RunCMake_TEST_NO_CLEAN 1)
+    set(RunCMake_TEST_OUTPUT_MERGE 1)
+    run_cmake_command(MultiLangChain-build ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build .)
+  endblock()
+endif()
+
 if(RunCMake_GENERATOR MATCHES "Ninja.*")
   block()
     set(RunCMake_TEST_BINARY_DIR ${RunCMake_BINARY_DIR}/CMP0195-NEW-build)