diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 65ec4da5d5..d674114477 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ clang_dict['silence-unused-arguments'] = '-Qunused-arguments'
 clang_dict['extra-cxx-warnings'] = [ '-Woverloaded-virtual', '-Wno-mismatched-tags' ]
 clang_dict['cxx-strict'] = [ '-ansi', '-Wnon-virtual-dtor', '-Woverloaded-virtual', '-fstrict-overflow' ]
 clang_dict['strict'] = ['-Wall', '-Wcast-align', '-Wextra', '-Wwrite-strings' ]
+clang_dict['generic-x86'] = [ '-arch', 'i386' ]
 compiler_flags_dictionaries['clang'] = clang_dict;
 
 clang_darwin_dict = compiler_flags_dictionaries['clang'].copy();