diff --git a/eng/common/native/init-compiler.sh b/eng/common/native/init-compiler.sh
index 1daadf32a524f..28f5145a6f794 100644
--- a/eng/common/native/init-compiler.sh
+++ b/eng/common/native/init-compiler.sh
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 # This file detects the C/C++ compiler and exports it to the CC/CXX environment variables
 #
 
-if [[ "$#" -lt 2 ]]; then
+if [[ "$#" -lt 3 ]]; then
   echo "Usage..."
-  echo "init-compiler.sh <Architecture> <compiler> <compiler major version> <compiler minor version>"
+  echo "init-compiler.sh <script directory> <Architecture> <compiler> <compiler major version> <compiler minor version>"
+  echo "Specify the script directory."
   echo "Specify the target architecture."
   echo "Specify the name of compiler (clang or gcc)."
   echo "Specify the major version of compiler."
@@ -13,13 +14,14 @@ if [[ "$#" -lt 2 ]]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-. "$( cd -P "$( dirname "$0" )" && pwd )"/../pipeline-logging-functions.sh
-
-build_arch="$1"
-compiler="$2"
+nativescriptroot="$1"
+build_arch="$2"
+compiler="$3"
 cxxCompiler="$compiler++"
-majorVersion="$3"
-minorVersion="$4"
+majorVersion="$4"
+minorVersion="$5"
+
+. "$nativescriptroot"/../pipeline-logging-functions.sh
 
 # clear the existing CC and CXX from environment
 CC=
diff --git a/eng/native/gen-buildsys.sh b/eng/native/gen-buildsys.sh
index b4a5e3fca8cda..416a3d471edfe 100755
--- a/eng/native/gen-buildsys.sh
+++ b/eng/native/gen-buildsys.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ majorVersion="$5"
 minorVersion="$6"
 
 if [[ "$compiler" != "default" ]]; then
-    source "$scriptroot/../common/native/init-compiler.sh" "$build_arch" "$compiler" "$majorVersion" "$minorVersion"
+    nativescriptroot="$( cd -P "$scriptroot/../common/native" && pwd )"
+    source "$nativescriptroot/init-compiler.sh" "$nativescriptroot" "$build_arch" "$compiler" "$majorVersion" "$minorVersion"
 
     CCC_CC="$CC"
     CCC_CXX="$CXX"
diff --git a/src/mono/mono.proj b/src/mono/mono.proj
index e818aa5f5f1fe..54f563fbe2f4e 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono.proj
+++ b/src/mono/mono.proj
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@
     <PropertyGroup>
       <EMSDK_PATH>$([MSBuild]::EnsureTrailingSlash('$(EMSDK_PATH)'))</EMSDK_PATH>
       <_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand>cmake @(_MonoCMakeArgs, ' ') $(MonoCMakeExtraArgs) &quot;$(MonoProjectRoot.TrimEnd('\/'))&quot;</_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand>
-      <_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand Condition="'$(TargetsBrowser)' != 'true' and '$(_MonoRunInitCompiler)' != 'false' and '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT'">bash -c 'source $(RepositoryEngineeringCommonDir)native/init-compiler.sh $(_CompilerTargetArch) $(MonoCCompiler) &amp;&amp; @(_MonoBuildEnv, ' ') $(_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand)'</_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand>
+      <_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand Condition="'$(TargetsBrowser)' != 'true' and '$(_MonoRunInitCompiler)' != 'false' and '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT'">bash -c 'source $(RepositoryEngineeringCommonDir)native/init-compiler.sh &quot;$(RepositoryEngineeringCommonDir)native&quot; &quot;$(_CompilerTargetArch)&quot; &quot;$(MonoCCompiler)&quot; &amp;&amp; @(_MonoBuildEnv, ' ') $(_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand)'</_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand>
       <_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand Condition="'$(TargetsBrowser)' != 'true' and '$(_MonoRunInitCompiler)' != 'false' and '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'">call &quot;$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)native\init-vs-env.cmd&quot; $(_CompilerTargetArch) &amp;&amp; cd /D &quot;$(MonoObjDir)&quot; &amp;&amp; @(_MonoBuildEnv, ' ') $(_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand)</_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand>
       <_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand Condition="'$(TargetsBrowser)' != 'true' and '$(_MonoRunInitCompiler)' == 'false'">$(_MonoCCOption) $(_MonoCXXOption) @(_MonoBuildEnv, ' ') $(_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand)</_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand>
       <_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand Condition="'$(TargetsBrowser)' == 'true' and '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT'">bash -c 'source $(EMSDK_PATH)/emsdk_env.sh 2>&amp;1 &amp;&amp; emcmake $(_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand)'</_MonoCMakeConfigureCommand>