diff --git a/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/CreateRuntimeRootILLinkDescriptorFile.targets b/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/CreateRuntimeRootILLinkDescriptorFile.targets
index cf8be3e4e906b6..1445f8794695d9 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/CreateRuntimeRootILLinkDescriptorFile.targets
+++ b/src/coreclr/System.Private.CoreLib/CreateRuntimeRootILLinkDescriptorFile.targets
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <CompileDependsOn>_CreateILLinkRuntimeRootDescriptorFile;$(CompileDependsOn)</CompileDependsOn>
+    <CompileDependsOn Condition="'$(DesignTimeBuild)' != 'true'">$(CompileDependsOn);_CreateILLinkRuntimeRootDescriptorFile</CompileDependsOn>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <PropertyGroup>
@@ -23,13 +23,16 @@
 
   <!--
         Generates the xml root descriptor file for ILLink. The file contains roots required by the runtime.
-        This gets generated by mono IL linker which lives in https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/tools/illink
+        This gets generated by the linker.
         If it fails, it'll spit out some cryptic error messages that's hard to debug.
         You can debug it by setting /maxcpucount:1 in the msbuild command to force it to not spawn up a bunch
         of child processes, and attach a debugger to msbuild. After that you can set a bp on the exception
         you are seeing.
   -->
-  <UsingTask TaskName="CreateRuntimeRootILLinkDescriptorFile" AssemblyFile="$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)" Condition="'$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)' != ''" />
+  <UsingTask TaskName="CreateRuntimeRootILLinkDescriptorFile"
+             AssemblyFile="$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)"
+             TaskFactory="TaskHostFactory"
+             Condition="'$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)' != ''" />
   <Target Name="_CreateILLinkRuntimeRootDescriptorFile"
           DependsOnTargets="_CombineILLinkTrimXmlFilePaths"
           Inputs="$(_NamespaceFilePath);$(_MscorlibFilePath);$(_CortypeFilePath);$(_RexcepFilePath);$(_ILLinkDescriptorsIntermediatePath)"
@@ -44,7 +47,10 @@
                                            RuntimeRootDescriptorFilePath="$(_ILLinkRuntimeRootDescriptorFilePath)" />
   </Target>
 
-  <UsingTask TaskName="CombineLinkerXmlFiles" AssemblyFile="$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)" Condition="'$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)' != ''" />
+  <UsingTask TaskName="CombineLinkerXmlFiles"
+             AssemblyFile="$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)"
+             TaskFactory="TaskHostFactory"
+             Condition="'$(ILLinkTasksAssembly)' != ''" />
   <Target Name="_CombineILLinkTrimXmlFilePaths"
           Inputs="@(_ILLinkDescriptorsFilePaths)"
           Outputs="$(_ILLinkDescriptorsIntermediatePath)">