diff --git a/mecab.spec b/mecab.spec
index 8b0a702..ce03a0a 100644
--- a/mecab.spec
+++ b/mecab.spec
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ License:	BSD or LGPLv2+ or GPL+
 URL:		http://mecab.sourceforge.net/
 Source0:	http://mecab.googlecode.com/files/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
+BuildRequires: gcc-c++
+
 %description
 MeCab is a open source morphological analyzer which uses 
 CRF (Conditional Random Fields) as the estimation of parameters.