diff --git a/recipes/games/openjk/recipe.toml b/recipes/games/openjk/recipe.toml
index 04bc30750..4d1d0e578 100644
--- a/recipes/games/openjk/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/games/openjk/recipe.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ script = """
 DYNAMIC_INIT
 export CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/include/SDL2"
 COOKBOOK_CMAKE_FLAGS+=(
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=11
     -DJPEG_INCLUDE_DIR="${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/include"
     -DJPEG_LIBRARY="-ljpeg"
     -DPNG_PNG_INCLUDE_DIR="${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/include"