diff --git a/www/htmlcxx/Makefile b/www/htmlcxx/Makefile
index 86775db1e671..bc3cc6cb30a6 100644
--- a/www/htmlcxx/Makefile
+++ b/www/htmlcxx/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	htmlcxx
 PORTVERSION=	0.87
 CATEGORIES=	www textproc
 MASTER_SITES=	SF/htmlcxx/v${PORTVERSION} \
 		https://github.com/bonitao/htmlcxx/releases/download/v${PORTVERSION}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	HTML and CSS APIs for C++
 WWW=		https://github.com/bonitao/htmlcxx
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL20
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LGPL_V2
 
 USES=		bison:alias iconv libtool localbase:ldflags pathfix
+USE_CXXSTD=	c++14
+USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
-USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|-liconv|${ICONV_LIB}|' ${WRKSRC}/configure
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>