diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index ffcd8bbce..495be37d3 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ common --incompatible_config_setting_private_default_visibility
 # Link Google Test against Abseil and RE2.
 build --define='absl=1'
 
+# https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/26294
+build --experimental_cc_static_library
+
 # AllocationGuard.CooperativeDeathTest checks for "SIGABRT received"
 # message printed by this signal handler.
 test --test_env="GTEST_INSTALL_FAILURE_SIGNAL_HANDLER=1"
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md
index cdfc71842..b8afe5578 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -254,6 +254,26 @@ build --cxxopt='-std=c++17'
 
 Congratulations! You've created your first binary using TCMalloc.
 
+### Using TCMalloc in non-Bazel Projects
+
+If you are not using Bazel, you can instead build a standalone version
+of TCMalloc that you can vendor in your project. Before doing so you
+should still run the tests, as described above, to make sure the
+vendored library will work in your environment. Then build the
+standalone bazel target:
+
+```
+tcmalloc$ bazel build tcmalloc:tcmalloc_standalone
+```
+
+Once this builds you can copy the resulting static library from
+`bazel-bin/tcmalloc/libtcmalloc_standalone.a` into your project!
+
+Note that if you have dependencies in your project that are also
+included in TCMalloc, it is up to you to ensure the versions are
+compatible in order to avoid symbol conflicts (which may or may not be
+hard errors at link time).
+
 ## What's Next
 
 *   Read our [overview](overview.md), if you haven't already. The overview
diff --git a/tcmalloc/BUILD b/tcmalloc/BUILD
index 9aaed5ec4..1334e20a5 100644
--- a/tcmalloc/BUILD
+++ b/tcmalloc/BUILD
@@ -111,6 +111,13 @@ cc_library(
     alwayslink = 1,
 )
 
+cc_static_library(
+    name = "tcmalloc_standalone",
+    tags = ["manual"],
+    visibility = [":__subpackages__"],
+    deps = [":tcmalloc"],
+)
+
 cc_library(
     name = "tcmalloc_internal_methods_only",
     srcs = [
diff --git a/tcmalloc/testing/BUILD b/tcmalloc/testing/BUILD
index a7bb9c2a6..b36ce8804 100644
--- a/tcmalloc/testing/BUILD
+++ b/tcmalloc/testing/BUILD
@@ -1028,3 +1028,22 @@ create_tcmalloc_testsuite(
         "@com_google_googletest//:gtest_main",
     ],
 )
+
+cc_import(
+    name = "standalone_import",
+    static_library = "//tcmalloc:tcmalloc_standalone",
+    alwayslink = True,
+)
+
+cc_test(
+    name = "standalone_test",
+    srcs = ["standalone_test.cc"],
+    tags = [
+        "noasan",
+        "nomsan",
+        "notsan",
+    ],
+    deps = [
+        ":standalone_import",
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/tcmalloc/testing/standalone_test.cc b/tcmalloc/testing/standalone_test.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e3a358292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tcmalloc/testing/standalone_test.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#include <iostream>
+#include <cstddef>
+
+int main() {
+  std::cout << "Standard Alignment: " << alignof(std::max_align_t) << '\n';
+
+  double *ptr = (double*) malloc(sizeof(double));
+  std::cout << "Double Alignment: " << alignof(*ptr) << '\n';
+
+  char *ptr2 = (char*) malloc(1);
+  std::cout << "Char Alignment: " << alignof(*ptr2) << '\n';
+
+  void *ptr3;
+  std::cout << "Sizeof void*: " << sizeof(ptr3) << '\n';
+
+  return 0;
+}