diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index af4e8fc1f2815b..7c0b4a0851b295 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
       ['target_arch in "arm ia32 mips mipsel ppc"', {
         'v8_enable_pointer_compression': 0,
         'v8_enable_31bit_smis_on_64bit_arch': 0,
+        'v8_enable_sandbox': 0
       }],
       ['target_arch in "ppc64 s390x"', {
         'v8_enable_backtrace': 1,
diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
index 10d0fbb83e611e..3084cc964cbe6d 100755
--- a/configure.py
+++ b/configure.py
@@ -1572,6 +1572,7 @@ def configure_v8(o):
   o['variables']['v8_use_siphash'] = 0 if options.without_siphash else 1
   o['variables']['v8_enable_maglev'] = 1 if options.v8_enable_maglev else 0
   o['variables']['v8_enable_pointer_compression'] = 1 if options.enable_pointer_compression else 0
+  o['variables']['v8_enable_sandbox'] = 1 if options.enable_pointer_compression else 0
   o['variables']['v8_enable_31bit_smis_on_64bit_arch'] = 1 if options.enable_pointer_compression else 0
   o['variables']['v8_enable_shared_ro_heap'] = 0 if options.enable_pointer_compression or options.disable_shared_ro_heap else 1
   o['variables']['v8_enable_extensible_ro_snapshot'] = 0