diff --git a/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild b/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild
index b6a6027..7891594 100644
--- a/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ RDEPEND+="
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
 LIBNAME="libdescale.so"
-EXTRAFLAGS="-fPIC -shared -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions"
+EXTRAFLAGS="-fPIC -shared -std=c++17"
 
 src_compile(){
-	echo "$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS} ${EXTRAFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o ${LIBNAME} descale.cpp"
-	$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS} ${EXTRAFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o ${LIBNAME} descale.cpp || die "Build failed"
+	echo "$(tc-getCXX) ${CFLAGS} ${EXTRAFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o ${LIBNAME} descale.cpp"
+	$(tc-getCXX) ${CFLAGS} ${EXTRAFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o ${LIBNAME} descale.cpp || die "Build failed"
 }
 
 src_install(){