diff --git a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/InteropUtils.kt b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/InteropUtils.kt
index 6fd0a2fdb08..d8983d51199 100644
--- a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/InteropUtils.kt
+++ b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/InteropUtils.kt
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ internal class InteropBuiltIns(builtIns: KonanBuiltIns) {
 
     val exportObjCClass = packageScope.getContributedClass("ExportObjCClass")
 
+    val CreateNSStringFromKString = packageScope.getContributedFunctions("CreateNSStringFromKString").single()
+
 }
 
 private fun MemberScope.getContributedVariables(name: String) =
diff --git a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/ContextUtils.kt b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/ContextUtils.kt
index a4cb306e1f2..962e736bedf 100644
--- a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/ContextUtils.kt
+++ b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/ContextUtils.kt
@@ -424,7 +424,6 @@ internal class Llvm(val context: Context, val llvmModule: LLVMModuleRef) {
 
     val Kotlin_ObjCExport_refToObjC by lazyRtFunction
     val Kotlin_ObjCExport_refFromObjC by lazyRtFunction
-    val Kotlin_Interop_CreateNSStringFromKString by lazyRtFunction
     val Kotlin_Interop_CreateNSArrayFromKList by lazyRtFunction
     val Kotlin_Interop_CreateNSMutableArrayFromKList by lazyRtFunction
     val Kotlin_Interop_CreateNSSetFromKSet by lazyRtFunction
diff --git a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/objcexport/ObjCExportCodeGenerator.kt b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/objcexport/ObjCExportCodeGenerator.kt
index a842c6e43aa..a9f38bd07fd 100644
--- a/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/objcexport/ObjCExportCodeGenerator.kt
+++ b/backend.native/compiler/ir/backend.native/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/backend/konan/llvm/objcexport/ObjCExportCodeGenerator.kt
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ private fun ObjCExportCodeGenerator.emitKotlinFunctionAdaptersToBlock() {
 private fun ObjCExportCodeGenerator.emitSpecialClassesConvertions() {
     setObjCExportTypeInfo(
             context.builtIns.string,
-            constPointer(context.llvm.Kotlin_Interop_CreateNSStringFromKString)
+            constPointer(codegen.llvmFunction(context.interopBuiltIns.CreateNSStringFromKString))
     )
 
     setObjCExportTypeInfo(