diff --git a/examples/portable/executor_runner/executor_runner.cpp b/examples/portable/executor_runner/executor_runner.cpp
index 7c75c39f0a9..b5d008ff1e7 100644
--- a/examples/portable/executor_runner/executor_runner.cpp
+++ b/examples/portable/executor_runner/executor_runner.cpp
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   if (tracer.get_event_tracer()) {
     // Dump ETDump data containing profiling/debugging data to file specified in
     // command line flag.
-    Error status = tracer.write_etdump_to_file();
+    status = tracer.write_etdump_to_file();
     ET_CHECK_MSG(status == Error::Ok, "Failed to save ETDump file.");
   }
 
diff --git a/examples/portable/executor_runner/targets.bzl b/examples/portable/executor_runner/targets.bzl
index 3d29472300f..098f2182a87 100644
--- a/examples/portable/executor_runner/targets.bzl
+++ b/examples/portable/executor_runner/targets.bzl
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ def define_common_targets():
     runtime.cxx_library(
         name = "executor_runner_lib",
         srcs = ["executor_runner.cpp"],
+        compiler_flags = ["-Wno-global-constructors"],
         deps = [
             "//executorch/runtime/executor:program",
             "//executorch/extension/data_loader:file_data_loader",
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ def define_common_targets():
     runtime.cxx_library(
         name = "executor_runner_lib_with_threadpool",
         srcs = ["executor_runner.cpp"],
+        compiler_flags = ["-Wno-global-constructors"],
         deps = [
             "//executorch/runtime/executor:program",
             "//executorch/extension/data_loader:file_data_loader",