diff --git a/brightray/brightray.gypi b/brightray/brightray.gypi
index e7006435c781..4931cfc29c14 100644
--- a/brightray/brightray.gypi
+++ b/brightray/brightray.gypi
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
       'GCC_ENABLE_CPP_EXCEPTIONS': 'NO',
       'GCC_ENABLE_CPP_RTTI': 'NO',
       'GCC_TREAT_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS': 'YES',
+      'CLANG_CXX_LANGUAGE_STANDARD': 'c++11',
       'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET': '10.8',
       'RUN_CLANG_STATIC_ANALYZER': 'YES',
       'USE_HEADER_MAP': 'NO',