diff --git a/lua/nvim-treesitter/_meta/parsers.lua b/lua/nvim-treesitter/_meta/parsers.lua
index 3a97b35a5..54b613699 100644
--- a/lua/nvim-treesitter/_meta/parsers.lua
+++ b/lua/nvim-treesitter/_meta/parsers.lua
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ error('Cannot require a meta file')
 ---
 ---Directory with queries to be installed
 ---@field queries? string
+---
+---Envrionment variables for generating the parser
+---@field env table<string, string|number>
 
 ---@class ParserInfo
 ---
diff --git a/lua/nvim-treesitter/install.lua b/lua/nvim-treesitter/install.lua
index 1020e7da9..82cb1cf6e 100644
--- a/lua/nvim-treesitter/install.lua
+++ b/lua/nvim-treesitter/install.lua
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ end
 ---@param compile_location string
 ---@return string? err
 local function do_generate(logger, repo, compile_location)
+  local env = vim.tbl_extend('force', { TREE_SITTER_JS_RUNTIME = 'native' }, repo.env)
   local from_json = true
   if repo.generate_from_json == false then
     from_json = false
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ local function do_generate(logger, repo, compile_location)
     '--abi',
     tostring(vim.treesitter.language_version),
     from_json and 'src/grammar.json' or nil,
-  }, { cwd = compile_location, env = { TREE_SITTER_JS_RUNTIME = 'native' } })
+  }, { cwd = compile_location, env = env })
   if r.code > 0 then
     return logger:error('Error during "tree-sitter generate": %s', r.stderr)
   end