diff --git a/tool/gocross/exec_other.go b/tool/gocross/exec_other.go
index 7bce0c099..4dd74f84d 100644
--- a/tool/gocross/exec_other.go
+++ b/tool/gocross/exec_other.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 )
@@ -16,5 +17,14 @@ func doExec(cmd string, args []string, env []string) error {
 	c.Stdin = os.Stdin
 	c.Stdout = os.Stdout
 	c.Stderr = os.Stderr
-	return c.Run()
+	err := c.Run()
+
+	// Propagate ExitErrors within this func to give us similar semantics to
+	// the Unix variant.
+	var ee *exec.ExitError
+	if errors.As(err, &ee) {
+		os.Exit(ee.ExitCode())
+	}
+
+	return err
 }
diff --git a/tool/gocross/gocross.go b/tool/gocross/gocross.go
index c71012d73..41fab3d58 100644
--- a/tool/gocross/gocross.go
+++ b/tool/gocross/gocross.go
@@ -114,7 +114,11 @@ func main() {
 
 	}
 
-	doExec(filepath.Join(toolchain, "bin/go"), args, os.Environ())
+	// Note that doExec only returns if the exec call failed.
+	if err := doExec(filepath.Join(toolchain, "bin", "go"), args, os.Environ()); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "executing process: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
 }
 
 //go:embed gocross-wrapper.sh