diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 6fe46076ff8..9801c3257ca 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
     # https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22920/files#r222779926
     'v8_enable_handle_zapping': 0,
 
+    # Disable pointer compression. Can be enabled at build time via configure
+    # options but default values are required here as this file is also used by
+    # node-gyp to build addons.
+    'v8_enable_pointer_compression%': 0,
+    'v8_enable_31bit_smis_on_64bit_arch%': 0,
+
     # Disable V8 untrusted code mitigations.
     # See https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Untrusted-code-mitigations
     'v8_untrusted_code_mitigations': 0,