diff --git a/src/nuget/Microsoft.DotNet.BuildTools.nuspec b/src/nuget/Microsoft.DotNet.BuildTools.nuspec
index 6aa5f4b562..6ff5e2500d 100644
--- a/src/nuget/Microsoft.DotNet.BuildTools.nuspec
+++ b/src/nuget/Microsoft.DotNet.BuildTools.nuspec
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@
     <file src="Microsoft.DotNet.CodeAnalysis.net45\Microsoft.DotNet.CodeAnalysis.dll" target="lib\net45\analyzers" />
     <file src="Microsoft.DotNet.CodeAnalysis\PackageFiles\**\*.*" target="lib" />
     <file src="Microsoft.DotNet.CodeAnalysis\Analyzers\*.*" target="lib\analyzers" />
+
+    <!-- workaround bug where Roslyn is failing to load analyzer dependencies that aren't in app-base,
+         copy these two dlls, which are dependencies of other analyzers, to app-base.  -->
+    <file src="Microsoft.DotNet.CodeAnalysis\Analyzers\Desktop.Analyzers.dll" target="lib" />
+    <file src="Microsoft.DotNet.CodeAnalysis\Analyzers\System.Security.Cryptography.Hashing.Algorithms.Analyzers.dll" target="lib" />
+
     <file src="Microsoft.DotNet.CodeAnalysis.net45\Analyzers\*.*" target="lib\net45\analyzers" />
     <file src="Microsoft.Cci.Extensions\Microsoft.Cci.Extensions.dll" target="lib" />
     <file src="Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Packaging\Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.Packaging.dll" target="lib" />