diff --git a/docs/new_project_guide.md b/docs/new_project_guide.md
index 788fecec1..38376dcc2 100644
--- a/docs/new_project_guide.md
+++ b/docs/new_project_guide.md
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Ilib/ \
     $SRC/parse_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/parse_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer .libs/libexpat.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine .libs/libexpat.a
 
 cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
 ```
@@ -101,12 +101,15 @@ cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
 
 When build.sh script is executed, the following locations are available within the image:
 
-| Path                   | Description
-| ------                 | -----
-| `/out/` (`$OUT`)       | Directory to store build artifacts (fuzz targets, dictionaries, options files, seed corpus archives).
-| `/src/` (`$SRC`)       | Directory to checkout source files.
-| `/work/`(`$WORK`)      | Directory for storing intermediate files |
-| `/usr/lib/libfuzzer.a` | Location of prebuilt libFuzzer library that needs to be linked into all fuzz targets (`-lfuzzer`).
+| Location|Env| Description |
+|---------| -------- | ----------  |
+| `/out/` | `$OUT`         | Directory to store build artifacts (fuzz targets, dictionaries, options files, seed corpus archives). |
+| `/src/` | `$SRC`         | Directory to checkout source files |
+| `/work/`| `$WORK`        | Directory for storing intermediate files |
+| `/usr/lib/libFuzzingEngine.a` | `$LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE` | Location of prebuilt fuzzing engine library (e.g. libFuzzer ) that needs to be linked with all fuzz targets (`-lFuzzingEngine`).
+
+While files layout is fixed within a container, the environment variables are
+provided to be able to write retargetable scripts.
 
 You *must* use the special compiler flags needed to build your project and fuzz targets.
 These flags are provided in the following environment variables:
diff --git a/infra/base-images/base-libfuzzer/README.md b/infra/base-images/base-libfuzzer/README.md
index d69f94f7e..91c008853 100644
--- a/infra/base-images/base-libfuzzer/README.md
+++ b/infra/base-images/base-libfuzzer/README.md
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ docker run --rm -ti -e <i>SANITIZER</i>=<i>undefined</i> ossfuzz/sqlite3
 | `/out/` | `$OUT`         | Directory to store build artifacts (fuzz targets, dictionaries, options files, seed corpus archives). |
 | `/src/` | `$SRC`         | Directory to checkout source files |
 | `/work/`| `$WORK`        | Directory for storing intermediate files |
-| `/usr/lib/libfuzzer.a` | | Location of prebuilt libFuzzer library that needs to be linked into all fuzz targets (`-lfuzzer`). |
+| `/usr/lib/libFuzzingEngine.a` | `$LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE` | Location of prebuilt fuzzing engine library (e.g. libFuzzer ) that needs to be linked with all fuzz targets (`-lFuzzingEngine`).
 
-While files layout is fixed within a container, `$SRC`, `$OUT`, `$WORK` are
+While files layout is fixed within a container, the environment variables are
 provided to be able to write retargetable scripts.
 
 
diff --git a/infra/templates.py b/infra/templates.py
index be6cdb4c9..daef4533f 100755
--- a/infra/templates.py
+++ b/infra/templates.py
@@ -72,5 +72,5 @@ BUILD_TEMPLATE = """\
 # e.g.
 # $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Iinclude \\
 #     /path/to/name_of_fuzzer.cc -o /out/name_of_fuzzer \\
-#     -lfuzzer /path/to/library.a
+#     -lFuzzingEngine /path/to/library.a
 """
diff --git a/projects/boringssl/build.sh b/projects/boringssl/build.sh
index 832b96654..4c0a1aba6 100755
--- a/projects/boringssl/build.sh
+++ b/projects/boringssl/build.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ for F in $fuzzerFiles; do
   fuzzerName=$(basename $F .cc)
   echo "Building fuzzer $fuzzerName"
   $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 \
-      -o $OUT/${fuzzerName} -lfuzzer $F \
+      -o $OUT/${fuzzerName} -lFuzzingEngine $F \
       -I $SRC/boringssl/include ./ssl/libssl.a  ./crypto/libcrypto.a
 
   if [ -d "$SRC/boringssl/fuzz/${fuzzerName}_corpus" ]; then
diff --git a/projects/c-ares/build.sh b/projects/c-ares/build.sh
index 965a5971a..8b3f1f69e 100755
--- a/projects/c-ares/build.sh
+++ b/projects/c-ares/build.sh
@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ make -j$(nproc) V=1 all
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -I. \
     $SRC/c_ares_ares_create_query_fuzzer.cc \
     -o $OUT/c_ares_ares_create_query_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer $SRC/c-ares/.libs/libcares.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine $SRC/c-ares/.libs/libcares.a
diff --git a/projects/curl/build.sh b/projects/curl/build.sh
index 35deec899..b6f3faa11 100755
--- a/projects/curl/build.sh
+++ b/projects/curl/build.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 make -j$(nproc)
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS $SRC/curl_fuzzer.cc -Iinclude lib/.libs/libcurl.a \
   -o $OUT/curl_fuzzer \
-  -Wl,-Bstatic -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lfuzzer -Wl,-Bdynamic
+  -Wl,-Bstatic -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lFuzzingEngine -Wl,-Bdynamic
 
 #  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.a \
 #  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a \
diff --git a/projects/expat/build.sh b/projects/expat/build.sh
index 06e03612d..7b6b024f0 100755
--- a/projects/expat/build.sh
+++ b/projects/expat/build.sh
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Ilib/ \
     $SRC/parse_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/parse_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer .libs/libexpat.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine .libs/libexpat.a
 
 cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/ffmpeg/build.sh b/projects/ffmpeg/build.sh
index 4c90217ad..f8379b324 100755
--- a/projects/ffmpeg/build.sh
+++ b/projects/ffmpeg/build.sh
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ cd $SRC/ffmpeg
 export TEMP_VAR_CODEC="AV_CODEC_ID_H264"
 export TEMP_VAR_CODEC_TYPE="VIDEO"
 
-FFMPEG_FUZZERS_COMMON_FLAGS="-lfuzzer /usr/local/lib/libc++.a \
+FFMPEG_FUZZERS_COMMON_FLAGS="-lFuzzingEngine /usr/local/lib/libc++.a \
     -L$FFMPEG_DEPS_PATH/lib \
     -Llibavcodec -Llibavdevice -Llibavfilter -Llibavformat -Llibavresample \
     -Llibavutil -Llibpostproc -Llibswscale -Llibswresample \
diff --git a/projects/file/build.sh b/projects/file/build.sh
index 6a5867a5b..28b7cc274 100755
--- a/projects/file/build.sh
+++ b/projects/file/build.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ make V=1 all
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Isrc/ \
      $SRC/magic_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/magic_fuzzer \
-     -lfuzzer ./src/.libs/libmagic.a
+     -lFuzzingEngine ./src/.libs/libmagic.a
 
 cp ./magic/magic.mgc $OUT/
 
diff --git a/projects/freetype2/build.sh b/projects/freetype2/build.sh
index cb025552e..891e0f773 100755
--- a/projects/freetype2/build.sh
+++ b/projects/freetype2/build.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 \
   -I./include -I. \
   ./src/tools/ftfuzzer/ftfuzzer.cc -o $OUT/ftfuzzer \
-  ./objs/*.o -lfuzzer \
+  ./objs/*.o -lFuzzingEngine \
   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libarchive.a \
   ./objs/.libs/libfreetype.a
diff --git a/projects/harfbuzz/build.sh b/projects/harfbuzz/build.sh
index f1b455616..854bd3af0 100755
--- a/projects/harfbuzz/build.sh
+++ b/projects/harfbuzz/build.sh
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ make -C src V=1 fuzzing
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Isrc \
     ./test/fuzzing/hb-fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/hb-fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer ./src/.libs/libharfbuzz-fuzzing.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine ./src/.libs/libharfbuzz-fuzzing.a
 
diff --git a/projects/icu/build.sh b/projects/icu/build.sh
index 9cca54847..18aeedc80 100755
--- a/projects/icu/build.sh
+++ b/projects/icu/build.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ for fuzzer in $FUZZERS; do
   $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 \
     $SRC/$fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/$fuzzer \
     -I$SRC/icu/source/common -I$SRC/icu/source/i18n -L$WORK/icu/lib \
-    -lfuzzer -licui18n -licuuc -licutu -licudata
+    -lFuzzingEngine -licui18n -licuuc -licutu -licudata
 done
 
 cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options  $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/json/build.sh b/projects/json/build.sh
index 304b7320d..c8e563e67 100755
--- a/projects/json/build.sh
+++ b/projects/json/build.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Isrc/ \
     $SRC/parse_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/parse_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer
+    -lFuzzingEngine
 
 cp $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/lcms/build.sh b/projects/lcms/build.sh
index 6591267b7..6e07e163f 100755
--- a/projects/lcms/build.sh
+++ b/projects/lcms/build.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ for F in $FUZZERS; do
         $SRC/$F.c -o $SRC/$F.o
     $CXX $CXXFLAGS \
         $SRC/$F.o -o $OUT/$F \
-        -lfuzzer src/.libs/liblcms2.a
+        -lFuzzingEngine src/.libs/liblcms2.a
 done
 
 cp $SRC/icc.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/libarchive/build.sh b/projects/libarchive/build.sh
index 261a045a4..1fa8d1b7e 100755
--- a/projects/libarchive/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libarchive/build.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 # build fuzzer(s)
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -Ilibarchive \
     $SRC/libarchive_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/libarchive_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer .libs/libarchive.a \
+    -lFuzzingEngine .libs/libarchive.a \
     -Wl,-Bstatic -lbz2 -llzo2  -lxml2 -llzma -lz -lcrypto -llz4 -licuuc \
     -licudata -Wl,-Bdynamic
diff --git a/projects/libass/build.sh b/projects/libass/build.sh
index 07db7d05e..b77854430 100755
--- a/projects/libass/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libass/build.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ make -j$(nproc)
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -I$SRC/libass \
     $SRC/libass_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/libass_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer libass/.libs/libass.a \
+    -lFuzzingEngine libass/.libs/libass.a \
     -Wl,-Bstatic -lfontconfig  -lfribidi -lfreetype -lz -lpng12 \
     -lexpat -Wl,-Bdynamic
 
diff --git a/projects/libchewing/build.sh b/projects/libchewing/build.sh
index 96f295ffa..3dbc4da1b 100755
--- a/projects/libchewing/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libchewing/build.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ for variant in default random_init dynamic_config; do
       -o $OUT/chewing_${variant}_fuzzer \
       $WORK/chewing_${variant}_fuzzer.o $WORK/chewing_fuzzer_common.o \
       test/stress.o test/.libs/libtesthelper.a src/.libs/libchewing.a \
-      -lfuzzer
+      -lFuzzingEngine
 done
 
 # install data files
diff --git a/projects/libjpeg-turbo/build.sh b/projects/libjpeg-turbo/build.sh
index 992134295..4a3eb3535 100755
--- a/projects/libjpeg-turbo/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libjpeg-turbo/build.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ make "-j$(nproc)"
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -I. \
     $SRC/libjpeg_turbo_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/libjpeg_turbo_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer ./.libs/libturbojpeg.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine ./.libs/libturbojpeg.a
 
 cp $SRC/libjpeg_turbo_fuzzer_seed_corpus.zip $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/libpng/build.sh b/projects/libpng/build.sh
index b9a0444de..0b208fc41 100755
--- a/projects/libpng/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libpng/build.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 # build libpng_read_fuzzer
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -I. -lz \
      $SRC/libpng_read_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/libpng_read_fuzzer \
-     -lfuzzer .libs/libpng16.a
+     -lFuzzingEngine .libs/libpng16.a
 
 cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/libteken/build.sh b/projects/libteken/build.sh
index c5f4a00c8..4e5ef8e31 100755
--- a/projects/libteken/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libteken/build.sh
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D__unused=" pmake -C libteken libteken.a
 $CC $CFLAGS -c $SRC/libteken_fuzzer.c -o $SRC/libteken_fuzzer.o -I.
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS $SRC/libteken_fuzzer.o \
     -o $OUT/libteken_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer libteken/libteken.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine libteken/libteken.a
diff --git a/projects/libtsm/build.sh b/projects/libtsm/build.sh
index 710d4cd21..b9c5e4ed1 100755
--- a/projects/libtsm/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libtsm/build.sh
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ $CXX $CXXFLAGS \
     -o $OUT/libtsm_fuzzer \
     $SRC/libtsm_fuzzer.o \
     .libs/libtsm.a \
-    -lfuzzer
+    -lFuzzingEngine
diff --git a/projects/libxml2/build.sh b/projects/libxml2/build.sh
index 93f3195de..bbfcf4181 100755
--- a/projects/libxml2/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libxml2/build.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 for fuzzer in libxml2_xml_read_memory_fuzzer libxml2_xml_regexp_compile_fuzzer; do
   $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Iinclude/ \
       $SRC/$fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/$fuzzer \
-      -lfuzzer .libs/libxml2.a
+      -lFuzzingEngine .libs/libxml2.a
 done
 
 cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/libyaml/build.sh b/projects/libyaml/build.sh
index 4dfe70377..618b5f75f 100755
--- a/projects/libyaml/build.sh
+++ b/projects/libyaml/build.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ make "-j$(nproc)"
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Iinclude \
     $SRC/libyaml_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/libyaml_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer src/.libs/libyaml.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine src/.libs/libyaml.a
 
 cp $SRC/libyaml_fuzzer_seed_corpus.zip $OUT/
 cp $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/nss/build.sh b/projects/nss/build.sh
index d2a126ed2..6a35c4789 100755
--- a/projects/nss/build.sh
+++ b/projects/nss/build.sh
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ FUZZERS="asn1_algorithmid_fuzzer \
 for fuzzer in $FUZZERS; do
   $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 $SRC/$fuzzer.cc \
      -I$WORK/nss/include \
-     -lfuzzer \
+     -lFuzzingEngine \
      $WORK/nss/lib/libnss.a $WORK/nss/lib/libnssutil.a \
      $WORK/nss/lib/libnspr4.a $WORK/nss/lib/libplc4.a $WORK/nss/lib/libplds4.a \
      $WORK/nss/lib/prlog2.o -o $OUT/$fuzzer
diff --git a/projects/ots/build.sh b/projects/ots/build.sh
index 7b2287abc..238520d59 100755
--- a/projects/ots/build.sh
+++ b/projects/ots/build.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ make libots.a libwoff2.a libbrotli.a
 # Build the fuzzer.
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Iinclude \
     $SRC/ots_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/ots_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer -lz $SRC/ots/libots.a $SRC/ots/libwoff2.a $SRC/ots/libbrotli.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine -lz $SRC/ots/libots.a $SRC/ots/libwoff2.a $SRC/ots/libbrotli.a
 
 cp $SRC/ots_fuzzer.options $OUT/
 zip $OUT/ots_fuzzer_seed_corpus.zip $SRC/seed_corpus/*
diff --git a/projects/pcre2/build.sh b/projects/pcre2/build.sh
index 1ceccd946..cbff93e91 100755
--- a/projects/pcre2/build.sh
+++ b/projects/pcre2/build.sh
@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 
 # build fuzzer
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -o $OUT/pcre2_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer .libs/libpcre2-fuzzsupport.a .libs/libpcre2-8.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine .libs/libpcre2-fuzzsupport.a .libs/libpcre2-8.a
diff --git a/projects/re2/build.sh b/projects/re2/build.sh
index db1435b65..a97ad3cb1 100755
--- a/projects/re2/build.sh
+++ b/projects/re2/build.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ make -j$(nproc) obj/libre2.a
 # Second, build the fuzzer (distributed with RE2).
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -I. \
 	re2/fuzzing/re2_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/re2_fuzzer \
-	-lfuzzer obj/libre2.a
+	-lFuzzingEngine obj/libre2.a
 
 cp $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/sqlite3/build.sh b/projects/sqlite3/build.sh
index f5f0af8e5..0454019b0 100755
--- a/projects/sqlite3/build.sh
+++ b/projects/sqlite3/build.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ $CC $CFLAGS -I. -c \
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS \
     $SRC/sqlite3/test/ossfuzz.o -o $OUT/ossfuzz \
-    -lfuzzer ./sqlite3.o
+    -lFuzzingEngine ./sqlite3.o
 
 cp $SRC/*.options $SRC/*.dict $SRC/*.zip $OUT/
 
diff --git a/projects/woff2/build.sh b/projects/woff2/build.sh
index 87f34101c..77e70c4b1 100755
--- a/projects/woff2/build.sh
+++ b/projects/woff2/build.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ rm src/woff2_compress.o src/woff2_decompress.o
 fuzzer=convert_woff2ttf_fuzzer
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -Isrc \
     $SRC/$fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/$fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer src/*.o brotli/dec/*.o brotli/enc/*.o
+    -lFuzzingEngine src/*.o brotli/dec/*.o brotli/enc/*.o
 
 cp $SRC/*.options $OUT/
diff --git a/projects/zlib/build.sh b/projects/zlib/build.sh
index f8aebe24b..f7f2a24ff 100755
--- a/projects/zlib/build.sh
+++ b/projects/zlib/build.sh
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ make -j$(nproc) all
 
 $CXX $CXXFLAGS -std=c++11 -I. \
     $SRC/zlib_uncompress_fuzzer.cc -o $OUT/zlib_uncompress_fuzzer \
-    -lfuzzer ./libz.a
+    -lFuzzingEngine ./libz.a