diff --git a/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild b/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild
index e51014a..b6a6027 100644
--- a/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-plugins/vapoursynth-descale/vapoursynth-descale-9999.ebuild
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ RDEPEND+="
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
 LIBNAME="libdescale.so"
-EXTRAFLAGS="-fPIC -shared -std=c++11"
+EXTRAFLAGS="-fPIC -shared -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions"
 
 src_compile(){
 	echo "$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS} ${EXTRAFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o ${LIBNAME} descale.cpp"