diff --git a/compiler/cgen.nim b/compiler/cgen.nim
index 2d4e70420b..7b71239e96 100644
--- a/compiler/cgen.nim
+++ b/compiler/cgen.nim
@@ -2497,12 +2497,13 @@ proc updateCachedModule(m: BModule) =
   addFileToCompile(m.config, cf)
 
 proc generateLibraryDestroyGlobals(graph: ModuleGraph; m: BModule; body: PNode; isDynlib: bool): PSym =
-  let procname = getIdent(graph.cache, "NimDestroyGlobals")
+  let prefixedName = m.config.nimMainPrefix & "NimDestroyGlobals"
+  let procname = getIdent(graph.cache, prefixedName)
   result = newSym(skProc, procname, m.idgen, m.module.owner, m.module.info)
   result.typ = newProcType(m.module.info, m.idgen, m.module.owner)
   result.typ.callConv = ccCDecl
   incl result.flags, sfExportc
-  result.loc.snippet = "NimDestroyGlobals"
+  result.loc.snippet = prefixedName
   if isDynlib:
     incl(result.loc.flags, lfExportLib)
 
diff --git a/doc/backends.md b/doc/backends.md
index 6751703430..a8db83fb59 100644
--- a/doc/backends.md
+++ b/doc/backends.md
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ which will likely make your program crash at runtime.
 The name `NimMain` can be influenced via the `--nimMainPrefix:prefix` switch.
 Use `--nimMainPrefix:MyLib` and the function to call is named `MyLibNimMain`.
 
-When compiling to static or dynamic libraries, they don't call destructors of global variables as normal Nim programs would do. A C API `NimDestroyGlobals` is provided to call these global destructors.
+When compiling to static or dynamic libraries, they don't call destructors of global variables as normal Nim programs would do. A C API `NimDestroyGlobals` is provided to call these global destructors. It is influenced by the `--nimMainPrefix:prefix` switch, too.
 
 
 ### Nim invocation example from C