diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c92a973eb..473e0da7e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ set(BUILD_ZIG1_ARGS
     --pkg-end
 )
 
-if("${ZIG_TARGET_TRIPLE}" STREQUAL "native")
+if("${ZIG_EXECUTABLE}" STREQUAL "")
   add_custom_target(zig_build_zig1 ALL
       COMMAND zig0 ${BUILD_ZIG1_ARGS}
       DEPENDS zig0
diff --git a/ci/azure/macos_script b/ci/azure/macos_script
index 84762b1e8..2b23dd40b 100755
--- a/ci/azure/macos_script
+++ b/ci/azure/macos_script
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ cmake .. \
   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
   -DZIG_TARGET_TRIPLE="$ARCH-native-gnu" \
   -DZIG_TARGET_MCPU="baseline" \
-  -DZIG_EXECUTABLE="$ZIG" \
   -DZIG_STATIC=ON
 
 # Now cmake will use zig as the C/C++ compiler. We reset the environment variables