diff --git a/src/installer/pkg/projects/netcoreapp/src/netcoreapp.depproj b/src/installer/pkg/projects/netcoreapp/src/netcoreapp.depproj
index a28bc49944189d..030a7a6a52f2ef 100644
--- a/src/installer/pkg/projects/netcoreapp/src/netcoreapp.depproj
+++ b/src/installer/pkg/projects/netcoreapp/src/netcoreapp.depproj
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@
     <ItemGroup Condition="'$(PackageRID)' != ''">
       <LibrariesRuntimeFiles Condition="'%(IsNative)' != 'true'" TargetPath="runtimes/$(PackageRID)/lib/$(NetCoreAppCurrent)" />
       <LibrariesRuntimeFiles Condition="'%(IsNative)' == 'true'" TargetPath="$([System.String]::new('runtimes/$(PackageRID)/native/%(LibrariesRuntimeFiles.NativeSubDirectory)%(RecursiveDir)').TrimEnd('/'))" />
-      <ReferenceCopyLocalPaths Include="@(LibrariesRuntimeFiles)" />
+      <ReferenceCopyLocalPaths Include="@(LibrariesRuntimeFiles)" 
+          Condition="'%(LibrariesRuntimeFiles.Extension)' != '.a'"/>
     </ItemGroup>
 
     <ItemGroup>