diff --git a/pdfgrep.spec b/pdfgrep.spec
index 3bdaca5..1c833bb 100644
--- a/pdfgrep.spec
+++ b/pdfgrep.spec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ License:        GPLv2+
 URL:            http://pdfgrep.sourceforge.net/
 Source0:        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
-BuildRequires:  fontconfig-devel poppler-cpp-devel
+BuildRequires:  gcc-c++ fontconfig-devel poppler-cpp-devel
 
 %description
 Pdfgrep is a tool to search text in PDF files. It works similar to grep.