diff --git a/lib/std/zig.zig b/lib/std/zig.zig
index 0a24a242d7..4f0f47b11f 100644
--- a/lib/std/zig.zig
+++ b/lib/std/zig.zig
@@ -763,6 +763,9 @@ pub const EnvVar = enum {
     // Windows SDK integration
     PROGRAMDATA,
 
+    // Homebrew integration
+    HOMEBREW_PREFIX,
+
     pub fn isSet(ev: EnvVar, map: *const std.process.Environ.Map) bool {
         return map.contains(@tagName(ev));
     }
diff --git a/lib/std/zig/system/NativePaths.zig b/lib/std/zig/system/NativePaths.zig
index 02f59d4b03..fd717f38b3 100644
--- a/lib/std/zig/system/NativePaths.zig
+++ b/lib/std/zig/system/NativePaths.zig
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ pub fn detect(
         }
 
         // Check for homebrew paths
-        if (std.posix.getenv("HOMEBREW_PREFIX")) |prefix| {
+        if (std.zig.EnvVar.HOMEBREW_PREFIX.get(env_map)) |prefix| {
             try self.addLibDir(try std.fs.path.join(arena, &.{ prefix, "/lib" }));
             try self.addIncludeDir(try std.fs.path.join(arena, &.{ prefix, "/include" }));
         }
@@ -177,8 +177,6 @@ pub fn detect(
 
         // Distros like guix don't use FHS, so they rely on environment
         // variables to search for headers and libraries.
-        // We use os.getenv here since this part won't be executed on
-        // windows, to get rid of unnecessary error handling.
         if (std.zig.EnvVar.C_INCLUDE_PATH.get(env_map)) |c_include_path| {
             var it = mem.tokenizeScalar(u8, c_include_path, ':');
             while (it.next()) |dir| {
diff --git a/test/standalone/posix/getenv.zig b/test/standalone/posix/getenv.zig
index ea4f9c4877..62c348e085 100644
--- a/test/standalone/posix/getenv.zig
+++ b/test/standalone/posix/getenv.zig
@@ -4,13 +4,8 @@ const std = @import("std");
 const builtin = @import("builtin");
 
 pub fn main(init: std.process.Init.Minimal) !void {
-    if (builtin.target.os.tag == .windows) {
-        return; // Windows env strings are WTF-16, so not supported by Zig's std.posix.getenv()
-    }
-
-    if (builtin.target.os.tag == .wasi and !builtin.link_libc) {
-        return; // std.posix.getenv is not supported on WASI due to the need of allocation
-    }
+    if (builtin.target.os.tag == .windows) return;
+    if (builtin.target.os.tag == .wasi and !builtin.link_libc) return;
 
     const environ = init.environ;