diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d1954cb..6cb9a6d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ project(vobsub2srt)
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6.4 FATAL_ERROR)
 
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeModules)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
 
 if(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
     set(
diff --git a/CMakeModules/FindTesseract.cmake b/CMakeModules/FindTesseract.cmake
index 4b15d74..3b0de74 100644
--- a/CMakeModules/FindTesseract.cmake
+++ b/CMakeModules/FindTesseract.cmake
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ if(TESSERACT_DATA_PATH)
 endif()
 
 set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES ${Tesseract_INCLUDE_DIR})
+set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS "-std=c++11")
 check_cxx_source_compiles(
   "#include \"tesseract/baseapi.h\"
    using namespace tesseract;