diff --git a/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/Kotlin2JvmTask.kt b/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/Kotlin2JvmTask.kt
index 6a26df13645..2285c40dad2 100644
--- a/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/Kotlin2JvmTask.kt
+++ b/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/Kotlin2JvmTask.kt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ public class Kotlin2JvmTask : KotlinCompilerBaseTask() {
 
     public var externalAnnotations: Path? = null
     public var includeRuntime: Boolean = true
+    public var moduleName: String? = null
 
     private var compileClasspath: Path? = null
 
diff --git a/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/KotlinCompilerAdapter.java b/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/KotlinCompilerAdapter.java
index ef075360592..a4d6b09f93c 100644
--- a/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/KotlinCompilerAdapter.java
+++ b/ant/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ant/KotlinCompilerAdapter.java
@@ -38,12 +38,19 @@ public class KotlinCompilerAdapter extends Javac13 {
     private static final List<String> KOTLIN_EXTENSIONS = Arrays.asList("kt", "kts");
 
     private Path externalAnnotations;
+
+    private String moduleName;
+
     public List<Commandline.Argument> additionalArguments = new ArrayList<Commandline.Argument>(0);
 
     public void setExternalAnnotations(Path externalAnnotations) {
         this.externalAnnotations = externalAnnotations;
     }
 
+    public void setModuleName(String moduleName) {
+        this.moduleName = moduleName;
+    }
+
     public Path createExternalAnnotations() {
         if (externalAnnotations == null) {
             externalAnnotations = new Path(getProject());
@@ -85,6 +92,8 @@ public class KotlinCompilerAdapter extends Javac13 {
 
         kotlinc.setExternalAnnotations(externalAnnotations);
 
+        kotlinc.setModuleName(moduleName);
+
         kotlinc.getAdditionalArguments().addAll(additionalArguments);
 
         // Javac13#execute passes everything in compileList to javac, which doesn't recognize .kt files