diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 721de8e1..1072132a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -24,13 +24,11 @@ jobs:
       - ci_started
       - test
       - docs
-      - build-mylib
     steps:
       - run: |
           echo ci_started: ${{ needs.ci_started.result }}
           echo test: ${{ needs.test.result }}
           echo docs: ${{ needs.docs.result }}
-          echo build-mylib: ${{ needs.build-mylib.result }}
       - run: exit 1
         if: ${{ contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') || contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled') || contains(needs.*.result, 'skipped') }}
   ci_started:
@@ -125,33 +123,3 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # If authenticating with GitHub Actions token
           DOCUMENTER_KEY: ${{ secrets.DOCUMENTER_KEY }} # If authenticating with SSH deploy key
         run: julia --project=docs/ -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate(); include("docs/make.jl")'
-  build-mylib:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 60
-    strategy:
-      # Only run 1 of the `build-mylib` job at a time, so that this job doesn't take over
-      # too many CI resources, and also to leave space for other runs in the JuliaLang org.
-      max-parallel: 1
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        julia-version:
-          - '1.10' # current LTS
-          - '1.11' # current stable
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@eef61447b9ff4aafe5dcd4e0bbf5d482be7e7871 # v4.2.1
-      - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@9b79636afcfb07ab02c256cede01fe2db6ba808c # v2.6.0
-        with:
-          version: ${{ matrix.julia-version }}
-      - uses: julia-actions/cache@824243901fb567ccb490b0d0e2483ccecde46834 # v2.0.5
-      - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@90dd6f23eb49626e4e6612cb9d64d456f86e6a1c # v1.6.0
-        with:
-          project: 'examples/MyLib'
-      - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@90dd6f23eb49626e4e6612cb9d64d456f86e6a1c # v1.6.0
-        with:
-          project: 'examples/MyLib/build'
-      - run: |
-          cd examples/MyLib
-          make
-      - run: ./examples/MyLib/my_application.out
-        env:
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH: 'examples/MyLib/MyLibCompiled/lib'
diff --git a/src/PackageCompiler.jl b/src/PackageCompiler.jl
index 220763b5..855ec534 100644
--- a/src/PackageCompiler.jl
+++ b/src/PackageCompiler.jl
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ function create_fresh_base_sysimage(stdlibs::Vector{String}; cpu_target::String,
     # we can't strip the IR from the base sysimg, so we filter out this flag
     # also presumably `--compile=all` and maybe a few others we missed here...
     sysimage_build_args_strs = map(p -> "$(p...)", values(sysimage_build_args))
-    filter!(p -> !contains(p, "--compile") && p ∉ ("--strip-ir",), sysimage_build_args_strs)
+    filter!(p -> !contains(p, "--compile") && p ∉ ("--strip-ir",), sysimage_build_args_strs)
     sysimage_build_args = Cmd(sysimage_build_args_strs)
 
     cd(base_dir) do
diff --git a/test/examples_mylib.jl b/test/examples_mylib.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a7c8388a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/examples_mylib.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# This testset makes sure that the `examples/MyLib` example does not bitrot.
+
+if Sys.iswindows()
+    @info "Skipping the examples/MyLib test on Windows"
+    @test_skip false
+    # TODO: Figure out how to get this testset to work on Windows.
+else
+    rootdir_testdir = @__DIR__
+    rootdir = dirname(rootdir_testdir)
+    rootdir_examples = joinpath(rootdir, "examples")
+    rootdir_examples_MyLib = joinpath(rootdir_examples, "MyLib")
+
+    run_julia_code = (project, code; env = ENV) -> begin
+        julia_binary = Base.julia_cmd()[1]
+        env2 = copy(env)
+        env2["JULIA_PROJECT"] = project
+        cmd = `$(julia_binary) --startup-file=no -e "$(code)"`
+        return run(setenv(cmd, env2))
+    end
+    run_julia_script = (project, scriptfile; env = ENV) -> begin
+        julia_binary = Base.julia_cmd()[1]
+        env2 = copy(env)
+        env2["JULIA_PROJECT"] = project
+        cmd = `$(julia_binary) --startup-file=no "$(scriptfile)"`
+        return run(setenv(cmd, env2))
+    end
+
+    mktempdir() do mytmp
+        # The PackageCompiler.jl source code directory might be read-only. So let's copy
+        # examples/MyLib to a temp directory so that we can write stuff to it.
+        MyLib_tmp = joinpath(mytmp, "MyLib")
+        cp(rootdir_examples_MyLib, MyLib_tmp)
+
+        cd(MyLib_tmp) do
+            # Go into MyLib_tmp/build/ and dev this copy of PackageCompiler.jl
+            run_julia_code("./build", """
+                import Pkg
+                Pkg.develop(; path = "$(rootdir)")
+            """)
+
+            # Instantiate and precompile the `MyLib/` and `MyLib/build/` environments.
+            run_julia_code(".", "import Pkg; Pkg.instantiate(); Pkg.precompile()")
+            run_julia_code("./build", "import Pkg; Pkg.instantiate(); Pkg.precompile()")
+
+            # We don't want to assume that the machine running the tests has `make` installed
+            # and available in the PATH. Therefore, we just run the relevant commands directly.
+
+            # build-library
+            run_julia_script("./build", "build/build.jl")
+
+            # build-executable
+            CC = PackageCompiler.get_compiler_cmd()
+            TARGET = joinpath(MyLib_tmp, "MyLibCompiled")
+            INCLUDE_DIR = joinpath(TARGET, "include")
+            cmd = `$(CC) my_application.c -o $(TARGET)/my_application.out -I$(INCLUDE_DIR) -L$(TARGET)/lib -ljulia -lmylib`
+            run(cmd)
+
+            # Run `./my_application.out`
+            env2 = copy(ENV)
+            if Sys.isapple()
+                env2["DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH"] = "./MyLibCompiled/lib/:./MyLibCompiled/lib/julia/"
+            else
+                env2["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = "./MyLibCompiled/lib/"
+            end
+            cmd = `$(TARGET)/my_application.out`
+            @test success(run(setenv(cmd, env2)))
+            observed_str = strip(read(setenv(cmd, env2), String))
+            expected_str = "Incremented count: 4 (Cint)\nIncremented value: 4"
+            @test observed_str == expected_str
+        end
+
+
+    end
+
+end # if-elseif-else-end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index a02e20a0..60c75a55 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -242,4 +242,9 @@ end
         hello = read(`$(Base.julia_cmd()) -J $(sysimage_path) -e 'print("hello, world")'`, String)
         @test hello == "hello, world"
     end
+
+    @testset "examples/MyLib" begin
+        include("examples_mylib.jl")
+    end
+
 end